Mother nature is protecting everything under her care, but she also has her way of warning us when we do not take care of her in return.
I almost lost count of how many natural disasters have occurred even just in my country, how much more when you combine all that happened around the globe – from floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, thunder storms, hurricane and many others.
This calamities can cause loss of life or damage to properties, and usually leave economic damage in its wake.
Here are some of the evidences of Mother nature’s rage:
#1. Avalanche
Avalanches are typically triggered in a starting zone from a mechanical failure in the snowpack (slab avalanche) when the forces on the snow exceed its strength but sometimes only with gradually widening.
#2. Thunderstorm
Also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, thundershower or simply a storm, is a form of turbulent weather which results from the rapid upward movement of warm, moist air.
#3. Fire Tornado
Also known as fire whirls, fire devils, or even firenados, fire tornadoes form when high heat and turbulent winds together spur whirling eddies of air.
#4. Hurricane
It is a tropical cyclone occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean or the Northeast Pacific Ocean, east of the International Dateline. A wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale, above 118 km/h, is also referred to as a hurricane irrespective of its origin or location.
#5. Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They come in many shapes and sizes, but they are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, whose narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a cloud of debris and dust.
#6. Tsunami
Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.
#7. Twister
These violent twisters form when the updrafts of air that supply storms with warm, humid air become a vortex, or high-speed whirlwind. Funnel clouds become tornadoes once they touch the ground.
#8. Volcano Lightning
Storms over volcanoes contain the same ingredients as storms over your hometown—water droplets, ice, and occasionally hail. The interaction of all of these elements creates an electrical charge that sparks lightning. Active craters add ash to the mix.
#9. Volcano Waterspout
Waterspouts can emerge the way traditional tornadoes do, but not always. Many are created when near-surface winds suddenly change direction under a cloud that is producing a growing updraft. Unlike a tornado, a waterspout vortex and funnel cloud are created from the ground, or water, up.
#10. Waterspout Lightning
A sister of the tornado, waterspouts are generally less powerful.
