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Weather Disturbances

This document summarizes several types of weather disturbances: 1. Thunderstorms are small-scale systems producing lightning, heavy rain, and sometimes hail from a funnel-shaped cloud. 2. Tropical cyclones like tropical depressions, storms, typhoons and hurricanes are low-pressure systems forming over tropical oceans with strong winds and thunderstorms circling around an eye. 3. Tornadoes are narrow, violently rotating columns of air extending from thunderstorms to the ground that can cause severe damage.

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Weather Disturbances

This document summarizes several types of weather disturbances: 1. Thunderstorms are small-scale systems producing lightning, heavy rain, and sometimes hail from a funnel-shaped cloud. 2. Tropical cyclones like tropical depressions, storms, typhoons and hurricanes are low-pressure systems forming over tropical oceans with strong winds and thunderstorms circling around an eye. 3. Tornadoes are narrow, violently rotating columns of air extending from thunderstorms to the ground that can cause severe damage.

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Weather Disturbances

Presented by:
Enguito, Damsel F.
BSED-4A Bio.Sci.
What is a weather disturbance?

• A weather disturbance is a general term


that describes any pulse of energy
moving through the atmosphere.

 
What are weather disturbances?
1. Thunderstorm
2. Tropical Cyclones
a. Tropical depression
b. Tropical Storm
c. Typhoons/Hurricanes
3.Tornado
4. Monsoons
5. Intertropical Convergence Zone(ITCZ)
Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm
•  It is a small-scale weather system in
which lightning and thunder produced by a
funnel-shaped cumulonimbus cloud.
• It is also known as an electrical storm, a
lightning storm, thundershower or simply
storm.
• It usually produces gusty, heavy rains,
and sometimes hail.
Video clip
Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Cyclone
• A tropical cyclone is a generic term for an
organized storm system of thunderstorms
that are not based on a frontal system.
• It is a low pressure system that generally
forms over tropical ocean areas, and
brings wind and thunderstorms.
• Comes from the Greek word “kyklos”,
which means “coiling snake”.
• Tropical Depression
Once a group of
thunderstorms has come
together under the right
atmospheric conditions
for a long enough time,
they may organize into a
tropical depression.
Winds near the center
are constantly between
20 and 34 knots (23 -
39 mph).
• Tropical Storm
A tropical storm is an
organized system of strong
thunderstorms with a
defined surface circulation
and maximum sustained
winds between 17 and 33
meters per second (34 to 63
knots, 39 to 73 mph, or 62
to 117 km/h). At this point,
the distinctive cyclonic
shape starts to develop,
though an eye is usually not
present.
• Typhoon
A typhoon is a name used
in east Asia for a
Hurricane. It is a type of
cyclone occurring in the
western regions of the
Pacific Ocean. A typhoon
is similar to a hurricane
in levels of
destructiveness. The
word typhoon comes from
the Chinese term “tai-
fung” meaning great wind.
• Video clip
Tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a narrow,
violently rotating column of
air that extends from the
base of a thunderstorm to
the ground. Because wind is
invisible, it is hard to see a
tornado unless it forms a
condensation funnel made
up of water droplets, dust
and debris. Tornadoes are
the most violent of all
atmospheric storms.
• Video clip
Monsoons
• Monsoon is traditionally defined as
a seasonal
reversing wind accompanied by
corresponding changes
in precipitation but is now used to
describe seasonal changes in
atmospheric circulation and
precipitation associated with the
asymmetric heating of land and sea.
Usually, the term monsoon is used
to refer to the rainy phase of a
seasonally-changing pattern,
although technically there is also a
dry phase.
Northeast Monsoon Southwest Monsoon
• Video clip
Intertropical Convergence
Zone (ITCZ)
Intertropical Convergence Zone
(ITCZ)
• The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ),
known by sailors as The Doldrums, is the area
encircling the earth near the equator where winds
originating in the northern and southern
hemispheres come together.
• The ITCZ was originally identified from the
1920s to the 1940s as the "Intertropical Front"
(ITF), but after the recognition in the 1940s and
1950s of the significance of 
wind field convergence in tropical weather
production, the term "ITCZ" was then applied
• Video clip

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