24 February 2025
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A derecho made a hurricane a skyscraper affected by more than one
Last year a strong derecho caused more damage to Houston’s highest buildings than Beryl hurricanes. Scientists wanted to know why
Broken Windows and boats are seen next to the Windows Fargo Plaza building on Houston, Texas, 17, 2024.
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Climatewire | Back-back disasters were surprised last year, when a strong derecho hit the city in May, and then Beryl hurricane Beryl did. Both events brought Gale-Ince Winds to a large density built in the center, more than 90 miles of hours.
After the storm, researchers noticed something strange. Derecho caused more damage than hurricane to Houston’s highest buildings.
Now, scientists say there is more research on the impact of the effects of the boundaries that go down in urban areas. That is mainly in Houston, the largest city in the Gulf coast, where storm storms and hurricanes can cause disasters.
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A New studyPublished Friday in the scientific magazine Limits in the built environmentResearchers at the Florida International University demonstrated different types of storms with different types of storms – can cause different threats to high buildings.
Both hurricanes can create high speed winds. But Derechos – Long-lasting storms often associated with storm storm groups – they have special features. There are characteristics of a sudden explosive explosion of wind moving in straight lines, often causes damage that radiates in one direction.
Researchers compare the damage caused by last year’s storms in many Houston buildings, at least 600 meters high. These include the Chevron Building Auditorium, Wells Fargo Square, Enterprise Plaza, Wedge International Tower and Energy Tower.
Each of these buildings is designed to withstand a 150 mph bike. However, many remain significant harm, especially during the date of the derecho. Researchers indicate that an assessment of 18 buildings reveal more than 3,000 windows during the storm. Beryl hurricane, on the other hand, caused less glass damage than Derecho.
The researchers wanted to know why he was among the two storms. So there were many experiments in a special wind chamber in Fiu, changing air flow to simulate the patterns of derechos in front of hurricanes. The Chamber building model helped evaluate the effects of strong winds in the built-in environment.
Derecho winds found that they can create unique forces, compared to hurricanes, including a stronger vacuum cleaner on the walls of the city buildings, unlock glass panels and reduce windows. The findings suggest that buildings designed for hard winds are not necessarily resilients for all types of storms.
“It is essential to understand the special storm and storm storm wind effects, protecting high buildings from damage to” Omar Metwally, PhD. needed to reflect this. “
Discoveries are important data points in the current changing climate, where extreme weather events are constantly bending.
Numerous research suggests that hurricanes are higher intensities as the warming of the climate. Meanwhile, other research could see that certain regions of the country rose as temperatures. And straight line winds are harmful It is already increased in some places.
Worse storms likely likely to increase a high challenging situation.
Storm storm caused more damage to the US than a type of extreme weather last year. A report from Munich Re-Resesuran found that a stormy stormy 45 billion dollars in damage Only in the first half of the year. And Noaa Data sets Suggest that hard storms have been damage to the country’s billion dollars in the last 45 years.
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