Amur river

NAME: Amur

LOCATION: China (Heilongjiang) and Russia (Oblast to Amur, Oblast Autonomic Hebrew and Krai to Khabarovsk).

LENGHT: 2,874 km (system Amur-Argun 4,494)

SOURCE: Khentii mountains.

MOUTH:Ojtosk sea (Pacific ocean)

FLOW FACTS: the Amur river, border ago between China and Russia. It´s the ninth longer river in the world. It has a basin 1,885,000 km2. This river flows by the north of Asia, from the mountains northern China, to the Ojtsk sea. In the mouth, the river, touches the northern extrem to Sakhalin.

TUNDRA

Nine months freezing. Very low evaporation. Below 300 mm precipitation.

SUBARTIC

Cool summers and long, cold and hard winters. The lowest temperatures (outside Antarctica). Largest temperature range.

MARINE WEST COAST

Mild summers and winters. High moisture and cloud cover. Low temperature range.

HUMID CONTINENTAL

There are two summers:

Warm summers are hot and humid with cold waves sometimes. Large temperature range.

Cool summer with long winters and moderate summers. Less precipitations than the warm summer. Large temperature range, too.

MEDITERRANEAN

Moist winters but dry summers. Sunny climate.

HUMID SUBTROPICAL

High humidity specially in the summer. Frost with polar air masses in the winter. Between 1,000to 2,000 mm precipitations of year.

DESERT

The driest zone on the Earth. Low moisture. Very high temperatures on the day and the nights are very cold. Little rains, annual precipitation less than 250 mm.

MONSOON

This climate has two season: Heavy rain season and short dry season. Before de rain period, came the highest temperatures.

TRAPICAL DRY-WET.

Wet season in summer and dry period in the winter. Warm temperatures. Rainfall less than the Equatorial Climate and Monsoon.

EQUATORIAL CLIMATE

High temperatures and heavy precipitations all the year. Cloud cover and very high moisture.

There are Equatorial Climate in the nearest areas of the Ecuado, intertropical zones with low latitude.

Questions for Lewis and Clark´s Journey.

1. Who had the idea of this adventure? Why?
The president Thomas Jefferson, because he wanted more power and more richness for the United States.

2.How did Mandan Indians behave with the expedition?
The Mandan Indian were very good with the explorers. They were kind and welcoming, too.

3.Who helped the expedition to continue when the maps failed?
An Indian guide.

4.When did they finish the journey and come back home?
The expedition ended on 7th November 1805. The next spring, they came back home and they arrived in St. Louise on 23rd September 1806.

5.Did they find an easy route, followed afterwards by other people? Why?
Yes, they did. Many people, follow the Lewis and Clark´s route in search of new lands and trade

Volcano Trek.

Orinoco River.

Weather Forecast for Europe.

Most of Europe is suffering a low pressure area or a depression, particularly along the Atlantic coast. A storm coming from the North Pole that brings cold fronts and rain, it is affecting the Iberian peninsula and the British Islands. That storm is also carrying a warm front to Scandinavia and Central Europe. In northern Europe there is also a depression, with warm and cold fronts that is affecting Russia, mainly because the countries of the Black Sea coast.However, in the south, in the Italian Peninsula and much of the Mediterranean Sea, is now an area with high pressures and good weather.

Umia river.

NAME: Umia River.

LOCATION: Galicia (Aciveiro, A Estrada, Cuntis, Moraña, Caldas de Reis, Portas, Meis, Ribadumia and Cambados.
LENGHT:70 km
SOURCE: Aciveiro (Forcarei)
MOUTH:Cambados.
FLOW FACTS: The river has this tributaries:Raigosa, Filloi, Alende and Grela.
In Caldas de Reis it produces a cascade. Between Ribadumia and Cambados, the river form wetlands where we can see migratory birds in all seasons.

Climograph 3.

This climograph is for the Humid Subtropical Climate.

In this climate rains a lot during in the year. The winters are very cold, because come to subzero temperatures. In the summers rain too, but there are warm temperatures.

Climograph 2.

This climograph is for the Mediterranean Climate. The winters are wet and there are warm temperatures. The summers are dry with high temperatures.

Climograph 1.

This climograph is for de Desert Climate. All the year the temperatures are very high and is a very dry climate, because rain a litlle bit during the year.

The hurricane Mitch (Central America 1998)

PATH OF HURRICANE MITCH

THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE

Hurricane Mitch was one of the most powerful and violent hurricanes in the history, it feached the category 5 on the scale of the hurricanes Sffir-Simpson, because of the high mortality caused, between 11,000 and 8,000 people; and the strong wind overcoming 290km/h. This hurricane caused extensive material damages too, between 6,000 and 8,000 million dollars.

Mitch was active for two weeks, from 22 October to 5 November 1998, in the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean this year. It affected all the countries of Central America, specially Nicaragua, Yucatan Peninsula, Honduras and the south of Florida Peninsula.

#HISTORY OF THE HURRICANE#

At first, the hurricane was a tropical wave from Africa, but it moved to the Caribbean Sea, where it began to form. After passing through Colombia and Jamaica and going to the west on 22 October, Mitch was considered a tropical storm and gave it name. On 24 October it became a hurricane, two days later it was very dangerous and belonged to the category 5. The pressure of Mitch went down until 905hPa. The eye of the hurricane passed through the coast of Nicaragua and was losing intensity close to Honduras. It became a tropical depression and it weakened, but there were remnants of the hurricane, so it formed again a tropical storm passing through the Gulf of Mexico.

The last time it went on land it was in Florida, but later it came to the north of Great Britain like a extratropical storm without causing damages.