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Coconuts in Samui

Koh Samui IslandKoh Samui, the third largest island in Thailand, located on the south-east in the southern Gulf of Thailand and from the first moment of arrival fascinates with its tropical beauty. Samui is also called the “coconut” island, as most of it occupied by coconut plantations.

There are air and sea links with the mainland. Local airport receives regular flights from Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and Singapore. Despite its small size (the island has a length of 21km in width and 25km in length), the nature of Koh Samui together with coconuts un Samui is so rich and varied, as though several different

Strong winds over water expanses

Weather forecast for USA Strong winds over water expanses. It is known that the sea state is caused by the wind. The stronger the wind, the more waves. Hurricane-force winds in the cyclone, especially tropical, very dangerous. Sometimes hurricanes cause unusual wave crests moving consistently, reaching heights of 10-12 m. They usually lead to flooding. [...]

Afghan dry and hot wind in Central Asia

Dry and hot wind in Central Asia, known as Afghan, there is often in the valley of the Amu Darya and other areas. Strong storms are frequent in the Sahara Desert and the Arabian Peninsula. They are called here sandstorm Khamsin. These strong winds at the air temperature 40-50 ° raise a cloud of dust [...]

Squalls

Squalls occur in the area of atmospheric cold front during the invasion of cold air into the warm area. The temperature difference between cold and warm air often reaches 10-15 º and more. Therefore, after the pass of the squall there is noticeable cooling. Squall could cover hundreds of kilometers, but its strength is not [...]

Devastating (severe) thunderstorms storms

Destructive (cruel) lightning storm is a storm, where wind gusts reached 30 or more meters per second, falling hail with a diameter of 2 cm, and there are tornadoes. These exceptional in its strength storms occur very rarely (and in the middle latitudes ETP is generally a rare phenomenon). Many severe thunderstorms develop from ordinary [...]

Giant hail in Europe

June 24, 1981 block of ice fell on a house in the town of Anerley, Kent. After breaking the roof, it burst into the room and splinters fell right next to a baby’s cot. The smallest of the pieces weighed about 400 grams. August 11 huge hailstones came to England. It was a hot, cloudless [...]

Sarma Wind

Strong winds occur on Lake Baikal in Siberia. These winds are called here Sarma. Sarma begins with the formation of an anticyclone in the cold air masses north of Lake Baikal (in Yakutia) and at relatively low pressure south of the lake. Under these conditions, the mountain valleys, especially along the valley of the river [...]

Lightning and Thunder

Lightning is a giant electrical spark. Striking in the structure, it causes fires, splits large trees, affects people. The surface of the globe is more conductive than air. The air is usually charged positively and Earth – negatively. Water droplets in a thundercloud are charged due to absorption of airborne charged fine particles (ions). A [...]

How to prevent hail

Can I stop the hail? Do I need to destroy the cloud? Fortunately, as meteorologists have found, destroying the cloud is not required. Atmospheric processes are sometimes in a such fragile state that a relatively small intervention can push them in the desired direction. The size of hail clouds is huge, sometimes several thousand square [...]

Giant hail in China

Since the beginning of the year in Guangdong Province there was not a dropped of rain. Crops were threatened. In earlier times, in such cases, the monks began to pray, so that the gods take pity on people, but now, under the communist regime, such was unthinkable. Morning of 6 April the sky was overcast [...]

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