Chapter 618 (1/2)

Spend all her life sitting on the sofa watching TV, where the latest news of whirlwind ”windmill” is playing.

For lifelong flowers, whirlwind is a new term that is not familiar. It feels completely different from typhoon and hurricane. It is easier to think of ”invincible whirlwind leg” or ”whirlwind boy”.

However, cyclones are indeed another name for typhoons and hurricanes. They both refer to tropical cyclones with wind speeds of more than 32.6 M / s. They are given different names only due to differences in language and cultural habits.

The tropical cyclone generated in the western North Pacific is called typhoon, which is translated into Chinese;

Tropical cyclones generated in the eastern part of the North Pacific, the Atlantic and the Caribbean are called hurricanes.

The word hurricane is said to be derived from the native language demon hurican in the Caribbean. It is also said to be hurakan, the God of thunderstorm and wind in Mayan mythology. No matter which one, it sounds like ”ulakan”.

The word typhoon comes from Typhon, the son of Gaia in Greek mythology. It is the father of evil, with a hundred heads. The children it gave birth to with his wife ekadena are all terrible demons.

Some scholars believe that Typhon is the Seth of ancient Egypt. He is one of the nine pillar gods of Heliopolis, symbolizing power and storm. His father is the God of the earth in Egyptian mythology, geb, which has a lot of roots with the God of the earth in Greek mythology.

Cyclone is the name of the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.

Because of the different land and sea distribution of the earth, the tropical radiation zone appears south of 5 ° s latitude, so the number and intensity of tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere are much less than those in the northern hemisphere. This is probably the reason why tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere are directly called cyclones, rather than named after gods in the northern hemisphere, so they sound less powerful.

However, this whirlwind ”windmill” is an unprecedented super whirlwind.

The windmill was formed in the south of bath islands, about 150 ° west longitude and 30 ° south latitude. Only two hours after its formation, it increased from tropical depression to tropical storm, and the pressure decreased by nearly 200 hPa to 850 hPa within 24 hours. The wind speed near the center exceeded 300 km, and the wind field diameter expanded to 2000 km.

Before the United typhoon warning center had time to warn it, the windmill had developed to a strength equivalent to the strongest typhoon tip in 1979.

There are corresponding rules for the naming of each tropical cyclone: except that typhoons in the Northwest Pacific are named by 14 countries, other places are relatively simple, and the specified countries are responsible according to the different places of occurrence.

The windmill is located south of the Tropic of cancer, and the naming right belongs to New Zealand.

New Zealanders named it ”windmill” because it has been circling there since it was born, like a windmill firmly fixed.

Immobility is more frightening than moving.

Because you don't know if it will suddenly attack you and destroy your home at any moment.

This huge ”windmill” monster stopped in the South Pacific, but there was no ”Don Quixote” to fight it. The current scientific and technological level of mankind is powerless in the face of such natural disasters.

The area of dozens of square kilometers sounds very large, but on the Pacific Ocean, it is just a leaf lying on the sea.

When the force 17 gale hit the island, the trees were uprooted, and the already weak houses were directly torn to pieces. Tens of meters high waves came like mountains, and the height of the wave crest exceeded the altitude of the highest point on the island.

However, those island countries without armed police and soldiers who did not take the lead built a human wall in the flood. They also had no way out. There was a sea all around and there was no way to escape.

Life is so fragile in front of the windmill.

However, the ”windmill” has attracted worldwide attention, not because of the disaster of the islanders in the southern islands, but because such a strange tropical cyclone has never been encountered in the known history of the earth's environment.