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Cyclone approaching!
Can you run away from a cyclone? Yes, you can. Cyclones can be tracked from the
time they form over the sea. Weather scientists study information and find out the
path a cyclone is likely to take, its strength, rainfall, storm surge, and the possibility
of tornadoes. Based on this information, people living in the path of the cyclone are
asked to take shelter in safer places.
Did you know? WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV aircrafts
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
In China, weather prediction Administration conducted ten flights into
methods were used as far back as and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina!
300 BC. In India, the Upanishads,
Developing a warning system…
which were written in 3000 BC,
talk of how clouds are formed and Lt Col William Reed from
Great Britain was the first
about weather patterns. person to study cyclone
forecasting in 1847. At that
That’s not a ghoul! time, information from weather
It’s just a cloud. stations was relayed through
the telegraph. When the radio
was invented, it became
possible for ships out in the sea
to send information. The first
flight into a hurricane to gather
information was made in 1943.
TICKER Till 2002, scientists could predict hurricanes only three days in advance. Today, they can provide
Can you run away from a cyclone? Yes, you can. Cyclones can be tracked from the
time they form over the sea. Weather scientists study information and find out the
path a cyclone is likely to take, its strength, rainfall, storm surge, and the possibility
of tornadoes. Based on this information, people living in the path of the cyclone are
asked to take shelter in safer places.
Did you know? WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV aircrafts
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
In China, weather prediction Administration conducted ten flights into
methods were used as far back as and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina!
300 BC. In India, the Upanishads,
Developing a warning system…
which were written in 3000 BC,
talk of how clouds are formed and Lt Col William Reed from
Great Britain was the first
about weather patterns. person to study cyclone
forecasting in 1847. At that
That’s not a ghoul! time, information from weather
It’s just a cloud. stations was relayed through
the telegraph. When the radio
was invented, it became
possible for ships out in the sea
to send information. The first
flight into a hurricane to gather
information was made in 1943.
TICKER Till 2002, scientists could predict hurricanes only three days in advance. Today, they can provide
