I do not know whether you want to know about hurricane Karina or hurricane Katrina. Hence I give below details about both:
HURRICANE KARINA:
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Hurricane Karina is a large, rotating system of clouds, wind and thunderstorm activity. Its primary energy source is the release of the heat of condensation from water vapor condensing at high altitudes, the heat ultimately derived from the sun.
Therefore, Hurricane Karina can be thought of as a giant vertical heat engine supported by mechanics driven by physical forces such as the orbital revolution and gravity of the Earth.
For more details about Hurricane Karina, please check the following link:
http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/hurricane-trap/karina/
HURRICANE KATRINA:
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Hurricane Katrina formed as Tropical Depression Twelve over the southeastern Bahamas on August 23, 2005 as the result of an interaction of a tropical wave and the remains of Tropical Depression Ten. The system was upgraded to tropical storm status on the morning of August 24 and at this point, the storm was given the name Katrina. The tropical storm continued to move towards Florida, and became a hurricane only two hours before it made landfall between Hallandale Beach and Aventura, Florida on the morning of August 25. The storm weakened over land, but it regained hurricane status about one hour after entering the Gulf of Mexico.
The storm rapidly intensified after entering the Gulf, partly because of the storm's movement over the warm waters of the Loop Current. On August 27, the storm reached Category 3 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, becoming the third major hurricane of the season. An eyewall replacement cycle disrupted the intensification, but caused the storm to nearly double in size. Katrina again rapidly intensified, attaining Category 5 status on the morning of August 28 and reached its peak strength at 1:00 p.m. CDT that day, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 902 mbar. The pressure measurement made Katrina the fourth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time, only to be surpassed by Hurricanes Rita and Wilma later in the season; it was also the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico at the time (a record also later broken by Rita).
Katrina made its second landfall at 6:10 a.m. CDT on August 29 as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. At landfall, hurricane-force winds extended outward 120 miles (190 km) from the center and the storm's central pressure was 920 mbar. After moving over southeastern Louisiana and Breton Sound, it made its third landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border with 120 mph (195 km/h) sustained winds, still at Category 3 intensity.
Katrina maintained hurricane strength well into Mississippi, but weakened thereafter, finally losing hurricane strength more than 150 miles (240 km) inland near Meridian, Mississippi. It was downgraded to a tropical depression near Clarksville, Tennessee, but its remnants were last distinguishable in the eastern Great Lakes region on August 31, when it was absorbed by a frontal boundary. The resulting extratropical storm moved rapidly to the northeast and affected Ontario and Quebec.
For more details about Hurricane Katrina, please check the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
2006-12-12 18:22:12
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answered by vakayil k 7
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Good Question, Fonzie (and you are correct, Earl was once no pearl of a typhoon by the point he drew close to New England!) How approximately those: Hurricane Spiro - rejected considering it maybe only a nattering nabob of negativity Hurricane Gas Guzzler - rejected considering every time forecasters attempted to make use of the title, the typhoon ran out of gas Hurricane Aesop - via nature, Hurricanes haven't any morals Hurricane Schwarzenegger - appropriately, a typhoon is best referred to as a typhoon if it originated within the Tropics Edit: Hey Vapor Trails!!
2016-09-03 13:42:36
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answered by Anonymous
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