Hurricanes and Tornadoes

We can see that the table shows the differences between hurricanes and tornadoes by seven features.          

 74mph and 40 mph are the minimum wind speeds of hurricanes tornadoes respectively. The maximum wind speed of the most severe storms of hurricanes is between 155 and 200 mph, but between 250 and 300 mph for tornadoes. The classification scale is the Safire, Simpson C1 and C5 for hurricanes and the Fujita F0 and F5 for tornadoes. The hurricanes take 1 week on average but only a few minutes to a few hours for tornadoes. The average width of hurricanes is 300 miles but only 100 to 1.5 km wide for tornadoes. The hurricanes last from 2 to 3 days but 20 minutes maximum for tornadoes. The hurricanes starts over warm oceans but tornadoes start usually over land.
           From the table information we found that hurricanes are not stronger than tornadoes but it is last longer than tornadoes. Also tornadoes start over land but hurricanes start over oceans.

Three African Cities

The line graph gives information about the average monthly temperatures in three African cities - Mombasa, Cairo, and Cape Town. Each city has its own different climate, with very different characteristics.

The hottest place shown on the graph is Cairo. In July and August, average temperatures rise to over 80º Fahrenheit. However, Cairo also has the biggest variation in climate.Temperatures drop to as low as 55 degrees in Cairo’s winter, during January and February. This is equal to Cape Town’s lowest temperature in July. In fact Cairo and Cape Town are almost opposites in temperature. Cairo is hottest when Cape Town is coldest.

Cape Town does not have the range that Cairo has. Its maximum temperature is 70º F from November to February, after which it drops gradually to about 55 degrees in its winter. In contrast to Cairo or Cape Town,

Mombasa is warm all year round. Its temperature fluctuates very little, ranging from a low of 75 to a maximum of 83 in March.

In conclusion, location is very important in deciding climate. When it is winter in Cairo, it is summer in Cape Town, but Mombasa, being tropical, is warm all year round.

reflection # 3

During this semester we wrote two types of essays.  First one was about how to description of graphs and charts, the second was about problem & solution.

In the graphs and charts essays, we begin with single pie charts, writing from two pies charts of Valentine's Day gifts.  We went on to bar charts. Also we looked at information of tables for hurricanes and tornadoes.

We followed a simple three paragraphs construction. We described the information in the graphs, charts, tables. We wrote the growth of Lagos in the city agglomerations chart.

                In the problem and solution essays, we used a four paragraph construction. We stated the problem, and then we gave 4 to 5 causes of the problem and 4 to 5 possible solutions. In the concluding paragraph, we wrote the most viable solutions.

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