Jalen Heyward
Thunder storm- storm that produce lightning and thunder 2 major components precipitation and wind speed/ gusts Important for safety matters and agriculture How has storm intensity changed throughout the years in North Carolina?
$485 billion in damage from storms in General. (National Weather Service, 2011) Storm intensity is important to know for our economy. Hypothesis: If storm intensity changed through out the year then the intensity would increase
Stanly County Airport( KVUJ) Upper Piedmont Research stn (Reidsville, REID) Upper Mountain ResearchStn (Laurel springs, LAUR) Bearwallow Mountain (Hendersonville, BEAR) Central Crops Research station(Clayton, CLAY) Pamlico Aquaculture Field Lab (Aurora, AURO) Border Belt Tobacco Res stn ( Whiteville, WHIT)
Ten years of data maximum wind speed maximum wind Gust total precipitation maximum precipitation
Collected data from the different stations Convert hourly data to daily data Maximum wind speed, Maximum wind gust, maximum precipitation, Total precipitation. Graphed each data sets in time Calculated coefficient of variance( R 2 ), trend
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Maximum Windspeed= Trend line Decrease Maximum Precipitation= Trendline Increase Total precipitation= Trendline decrease Maximum Wind gust= Trend line increase Neither increasing or decreasing storm intensity. Results don’t support hypothesis.
Data = variable How Much money was involved? Look at surface analysis Reports of tornadoes, wind, and Hail Looking at a much longer period
Thank you to the NC State Climate office Thank you Adrienne and the other mentors for mentoring me.