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Sharks roaming the city streets

Category 17 typhoon peak state landfall

By Paul WeiestPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
Sharks roaming the city streets
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This year, most places in the northern hemisphere have experienced very rare hot weather, once so hot that even typhoons rarely appear. But after entering September, although the weather is still very hot, it is as if the floodgates of typhoons were suddenly opened, one after another appeared, the whole of September along the Pacific Northwest appeared 8 typhoons, respectively, Xian Lou, Chihuahua, Mia Ba, Madonna, Alas, Ola, Rose, Rock, a month appeared 8 typhoons, or very rare.

The Pacific typhoon is busy, so is the Atlantic hurricane, and now there is a hurricane is sweeping the U.S. East Coast, it is Hurricane Ian, according to the NBC report on September 28, Hurricane "Ian" in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, landfall, the wind raging speed of up to 67 meters per second, equivalent to the strength of a Category 17 typhoon, and is the peak of a Category 17 typhoon.

This is a very rare typhoon and hurricane to make landfall at this strength, so the National Hurricane Center called it one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the United States in decades and "extremely dangerous".

Hurricane Ian generated in the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico in the Atlantic Ocean, before entering the Gulf of Mexico swept Cuba and other places, had been reduced in intensity, but into the Gulf of Mexico is the same as entering the furnace refining, this is the world-famous ocean "warm pool", from here to the western Europe of a warm current is the famous North Atlantic warm current, creating a warm and humid climate in Europe.

Hurricane Ian reached here and regained a tremendous amount of energy, increasing the overall size, wind, and rainfall before making landfall in Florida in the southeastern United States with a force that was going to sweep almost everything away.

Florida Governor Antipodes said: Hurricane Ian is a storm that will go down in history, it swept through Florida after upgrading to a category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 600,000 customers are known to have lost power and more than 1.5 million customers suffered power outages, fortunately, millions of people were forcibly evacuated locally before the arrival of the hurricane, but there are still many people left in their homes as the fierce storm mercilessly washed everything on the ground.

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The New York Post reported on the 28th that: the mayor of Marco Island in western Florida said the local city streets have been flooded, many people stayed in their houses and asked for help, and there are constantly cars floating through the streets, together with refrigerators, washing machines, etc., and people photographed sharks swimming in the streets because strong winds also triggered a storm surge, heavy precipitation has made flooding and the sea into one The scene looks like "the city has fallen into the sea".

But more terrible than the sharks, many residents of the house were damaged by the flood, and even some residents of the house were swept away by the flood and washed away with the foundation piece. Some people may not believe it, the house is so heavy how can be washed away by water? With the foundation even more unlikely, the house is at best washed away. It is because many friends do not understand how the American house is built. Most American houses are not like us using brick or reinforced concrete, most of their houses are made of wood, even including the foundation, the overall weight is relatively light, and more water is floating on the water, so when a flood appears, their houses can be washed away by water.

Not only Florida, but the southern and southeastern U.S. states of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina have also declared a state of emergency because Hurricane Ian will reach these areas after ravaging Florida and sending them fierce storms, and many highways in these places have been closed and flights canceled by at least 1,100.

The United States in the Earth dimension is located in a similar position to our country, our country is on the east side by the sea, it is east and west by the sea, which makes it east and west likely to encounter hurricanes, this year the northern hemisphere as a whole high, September before the United States around the emergence of hurricanes are also very few, to September after the same became more, the main reason is also that the eastern Pacific Ocean and the northern Atlantic Ocean before the sea absorbed enough energy, in September The northern hemisphere began to turn cold, the subtropical high pressure is no longer so strong, the weather is hot and cold change more easily, hurricanes are also easy to appear.

However, in terms of drought, the United States is also the same as our country, China's Yangtze River basin and other places in the history of rare drought, which is still ongoing, the Midwest of the United States this year also suffered a rare drought in history, but also in the illustration of the global climate is undergoing rapid changes.

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