Hurricane Floyd
The hurricane of 1999
What is a hurricane?
Hurricanes are formed by tropical disturbances in warm ocean water and starts to form as a tropical depression. As they travel , they gain fuel or energy from the warm ocean water, and it weakens if they reach landfall. If wind speeds exceed 32 MPH, then it is a storm. If the wind speeds increase more then 79 MPH then it is a hurricane.
Categorizing and naming
Hurricane Floyd, 1999
Results
Ben Miner
Floyd's Track Map
This Image is Hurricane Floyd's tracking map. As you can see, it was very powerful going to it's land. it was a category four when he hit and slowly decreased power as he went north.
Floyd's Satellite image
This image is Floyd's satellite image. The color measures intensity and weather. The red and yellow area are the strong weather areas with high wind speeds and a lot of precipitation.
Floyd's Damage
As you can see, Floyd caused a ton of flooding causing deaths left and right. The color of the water is a mixture of every thing it went over like mud, grass, bugs, houses, and much more. In the picture, those are trees halfway under water and that is a road covered.