2006-07-01 07:19:04 · 8 answers · asked by Josyfur 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
I don't agree with the first answer....tonadoes can lead or follow hurricanes. What you are alluding to I think is the fact that a hurricane can first pass (the forward wall) and then the eye brings relative peace. Folks who react unknowingly to the eye think the storm is over when in fact its only half over.....
2006-07-01 07:24:55 · answer #1 · answered by Capt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean to say that you feel they are more destructive than the first side? Really the hurricane is a large rotating air mass. 120 mph winds would be the windspeed throughout the air mass, not just on one side. Just like a 120 mph tornado doesn't mean the air is slower on any one side of the tornado.
At the same time, the first side likely encounters far more resistance from trees, buildings, and other objects. Since the second side is likely to find less resistance from things that have already been destroyed it might seem worse or stronger because it destroyed objects that survived the first enslaught, but had less protected or interference during the second.
Finally, since the overall airmass tends to loose energy once landfall occurs, the second side should actually loose airspeed and energy as well. Unfortunately it will still feel like insult added to injury since the damage is done and you just want it to be over.
2006-07-01 14:35:52 · answer #2 · answered by Mack Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The winds aren't really much more destructive . . . the thing is that the wind is just blowing in opposition. When, for a period of time, you have wind gusts over 100 miles per hour, the wind has pushed things and braced them in a certain position (for instance, the wind is blowing northwards so things are leaning northwards now). When the opposing winds come, there is the same force blowing in the opposite direction so objects that have become braced from the first winds react unhappily. Just think of it in terms of metal fatigue (since most things are held together with metal fasteners), just bend an object like a paper clip in one direction then bend it in the other. Back and forth motion and metal don't get along. Similar rules apply for larger objects. The stress and fatigue on other objects is similar.
2006-07-01 18:14:02 · answer #3 · answered by White Rabbit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The winds and waves are the most destructive on the northeast quadrant of the storm. This is because the velocity of the circulating winds is added to the velocity of the forward motion of the storm.
2006-07-01 16:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by oil field trash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He it is Who enables you to travel through land and sea, till when you are in the ships and they sail with them with a favourable wind, and they are glad therein, then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides, and they think that they are encircled therein, they invoke Allah, making their Faith pure for Him Alone, saying: "If You (Allah) deliver us from this, we shall truly be of the grateful
The parable of those who disbelieve in their Lord is that their works are as ashes, on which the wind blows furiously on a stormy day, they shall not be able to get aught of what they have earned. That is the straying, far away (from the Right Path).
2006-07-01 14:27:52 · answer #5 · answered by saleem k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The winds on the northern side of the storm have been slightyl influencd by the land. On the South side however the winds haven't had anything to get in their way to slow them, and they blow straight at the land.
2006-07-01 14:26:23 · answer #6 · answered by Zephyr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that's where hurricanes spawn tornadoes.
2006-07-01 14:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by Dave R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-01 14:49:04 · answer #8 · answered by Yasir Saeed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋