Choose a major hurricane and answer the following questions in your blog.
1. Which hurricane did you choose?
- Opal
2. What category was it on the Saffir-Simpson scale?
- 4
- 4
3. Tell its story.
- Tropical wave moving off the African coast on September 11. The waved moved through the Atlantic and Caribbean on September 23. Developed into a tropical depression near the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula on September 27. Tropical Storm Opal as it reached the north coast of Yucatan on the 30th. Opal then moved into the Bay of Campeche, where it became a hurricane on October 2. Opal continued to strengthen into a category 4, and a period of rapid strengthening. Then weakening followed, and Opal was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall near Florida. The cyclone was last seen over the eastern Great Lakes.
- Tropical wave moving off the African coast on September 11. The waved moved through the Atlantic and Caribbean on September 23. Developed into a tropical depression near the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula on September 27. Tropical Storm Opal as it reached the north coast of Yucatan on the 30th. Opal then moved into the Bay of Campeche, where it became a hurricane on October 2. Opal continued to strengthen into a category 4, and a period of rapid strengthening. Then weakening followed, and Opal was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall near Florida. The cyclone was last seen over the eastern Great Lakes.
4. How many lives were lost? How much damage did it cause ($)?
- 59 deaths, Caused flooding and falling trees.
- 59 deaths, Caused flooding and falling trees.
5. Include at least one picture.
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