Harvey wreaks havoc in the US

[Corzhens]

Lousiana and Texas. The floodwater raged that resulted in great damages to homes and even vehicles. In the olden days, I couldn’t imagine that the US will experience flooding beacuse all along, I thought that floods is exclusive to tropical countries only. But maybe due to the climate change, we are experiencing a phenomenon.

 

[Steve Jobs]

Lousiana and Texas. The floodwater raged that resulted in great damages to homes and even vehicles. In the olden days, I couldn’t imagine that the US will experience flooding beacuse all along, I thought that floods is exclusive to tropical countries only. But maybe due to the climate change, we are experiencing a phenomenon.

Hurricanes have been around and have been hitting the US since 1851, so this is not due to climate change, and is not new to the US.

 

[tgtwizted]

I'd agree that climate change hasn't created the actual hurricanes, but could possibly be making them more severe.

 

[Limpia]

In any event, it is terrible the amount of damage that can occur.
Houston has a history of problems from hurricanes.

 

[Jason76]

Southeast Texas, Lousiana, Florida etc.. are practically tropical, at least, very subtropical. Anyway, though, hurricanes/typhoons can even hit further north - as they did in New Jersey a few years back.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Floods are experienced anywhere that there is an over abundance of water, and the ground not being able to absorb it all. 🙂 I hope the affected areas recover quickly.

 

[Jason76]

Some areas like the UK seem to be out of the path of hurricanes. Did Europeans even know about them before coming to the New World?

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Some areas like the UK seem to be out of the path of hurricanes. Did Europeans even know about them before coming to the New World?

I know the British occasionally had them, not sure about mainland Europe though.

 

[Jason76]

I know underwater earthquakes create them but are there other reasons? Of course, there is no way to stop underwater quakes, so all we can do is prepare beforehand.

 

[Limpia]

I have never heard that, I think maybe that is what causes a"tidal wave "
This gives a very detailes about how they start, and where they occur,

from: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/hurricanes/en/
Tropical cyclones are like giant engines that use warm, moist air as fuel. That is why they form only over warm ocean waters near the equator. The warm, moist air over the ocean rises upward from near the surface. Because this air moves up and away from the surface, there is less air left near the surface. Another way to say the same thing is that the warm air rises, causing an area of lower air pressure below.


A cumulonimbus cloud. A tropical cyclone has so many of these, they form huge, circular bands.

Air from surrounding areas with higher air pressure pushes in to the low pressure area. Then---snipt--