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This category covers the history and meteorology of specific tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons.
Disaster Awareness: All local National Weather Service Offices (NWSFO or NWFO) are responsible for public safety education, cooperation with outside agencies and organizations, ...
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A single rogue wave has certainly been known to spell disaster for the mariner. They have, over the past twenty or thirty years, come to be recognized as unique phenomena albeit with several possible causes.
(1) Constructive interference.
Halo - In ages past, the huge rings or haloes around the sun or the moon were thought to portend everything from storms to great personal disasters.
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FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Administration. Government agency for disaster relief efforts as well as disaster awareness.
FETCH - A distance a wind blows across a body of water for the generation of waves or transport of moisture or clouds.
When all was said and done, Andrew was by far the most expensive natural disaster in history (up to that date), with estimated damages exceeding $20 billion.
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El Ni-o: warming of surface waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific that brings about strange anomolous weather patterns to the coastal regions. Certain economical and ecological disasters can be linked to this phenomena.
Scale assessments are revised regularly as new observastions are made. Public safety organizations are kept informed of new estimates of the hurricane's disaster potential. Scale numbers range from 1 to 5.
 See also: Weather, Storm, Hurricane, Air, Current
  
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