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Mystara and hurricanes

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#1
spellweaver
Oct 23, 2005 14:53:08 Reading about hurricanes Wilma and Katrina, I got to thinking:

Which parts of Mystara and the Hollow World are "hurricane country"? Where do hurricanes occur and how often?

:-) Jesper
#2
pointman
Oct 23, 2005 18:09:49 Hurricanes, Willy-willies (don't laugh its real), Tropical Cyclones and Typhoons.

They develop from thunderstorms building up over warm tropical seas normally over 27degreesC or 80 Farinheit. So place them any where within the Tropics with warm water currents as a rule of thumb.
#3
havard
Oct 24, 2005 3:16:19
Reading about hurricanes Wilma and Katrina, I got to thinking:

Which parts of Mystara and the Hollow World are "hurricane country"? Where do hurricanes occur and how often?

:-) Jesper

Ierendi seems a likely candidate. Sindh, Shajapur, Merry Pirate Islands, Minea etc might also be likely candidates for hurricanes or earthquakes, as does the Savage Coast. For Thyatis, volcanoes seems a more setting appropriate natural disaster. Ofcourse, in a Mystara campaign, most natural disasters will likely have an unnatural origin.

Hope noone takes offence of this post, and let me again offer my deepest sympathies to those harmed in recent months by such incidents....

Håvard
#4
spellweaver
Oct 24, 2005 4:16:01
So place them any where within the Tropics with warm water currents as a rule of thumb.

I know next to nothing about meteorology (is that how it is spelled? About weather - not meteors!) but I came back from hiking a week in the Tatra mountains on the Poland/Slovakia border. The mountains are situated on a natural plain and strangely jut out of the landscape. They are only 10 kilometers north-south and 25 kilometers east-west and in the middle they reach an average hight of 2200-2650 meters (approx. 7300-8800 feet).

Now, I don't know if it was due to the particular landscape's form, but they had a storm i Tatra back in November 2004, which completely flattened several square kilometers of forest! Now, almost a year laters, there are huge areas of land still covered in splintered trees and branches, waiting to be cut up and removed. The locals told us the storm that hit them only lasted for a couple of hours but in that time, trees were uprooted by the storm and landed even on top of five-story hotel buildings!!

Does anyone here know how such storms form and whether it is more frequent/severe far inland than it is near the coast?

Oh, and of course, like Havard, let me express my sympathies with all those affected by natural disasters all over the globe.

:-) Jesper
#5
pointman
Oct 24, 2005 15:51:09 Not a common occurence, the more powerful storms require certain conditions to generate such destructive forces. Sounds like Tornadoes were involved.
Cold air descending from the mountains may have clashed with warm air rising combining to create such intense storm.

To get a idea of what can happen i would recommend watching the Perfect Storm as the weather Meteorologists explain what is happening to create such a super-storm.

.....to those affected by disaster all over the globe.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 spellweaver Oct 23, 2005 14:53:08	Reading about hurricanes Wilma and Katrina, I got to thinking: Which parts of Mystara and the Hollow World are "hurricane country"? Where do hurricanes occur and how often? :-) Jesper
#2 pointman Oct 23, 2005 18:09:49	Hurricanes, Willy-willies (don't laugh its real), Tropical Cyclones and Typhoons. They develop from thunderstorms building up over warm tropical seas normally over 27degreesC or 80 Farinheit. So place them any where within the Tropics with warm water currents as a rule of thumb.
#3 havard Oct 24, 2005 3:16:19	Reading about hurricanes Wilma and Katrina, I got to thinking: Which parts of Mystara and the Hollow World are "hurricane country"? Where do hurricanes occur and how often? :-) Jesper Ierendi seems a likely candidate. Sindh, Shajapur, Merry Pirate Islands, Minea etc might also be likely candidates for hurricanes or earthquakes, as does the Savage Coast. For Thyatis, volcanoes seems a more setting appropriate natural disaster. Ofcourse, in a Mystara campaign, most natural disasters will likely have an unnatural origin. Hope noone takes offence of this post, and let me again offer my deepest sympathies to those harmed in recent months by such incidents.... Håvard
#4 spellweaver Oct 24, 2005 4:16:01	So place them any where within the Tropics with warm water currents as a rule of thumb. I know next to nothing about meteorology (is that how it is spelled? About weather - not meteors!) but I came back from hiking a week in the Tatra mountains on the Poland/Slovakia border. The mountains are situated on a natural plain and strangely jut out of the landscape. They are only 10 kilometers north-south and 25 kilometers east-west and in the middle they reach an average hight of 2200-2650 meters (approx. 7300-8800 feet). Now, I don't know if it was due to the particular landscape's form, but they had a storm i Tatra back in November 2004, which completely flattened several square kilometers of forest! Now, almost a year laters, there are huge areas of land still covered in splintered trees and branches, waiting to be cut up and removed. The locals told us the storm that hit them only lasted for a couple of hours but in that time, trees were uprooted by the storm and landed even on top of five-story hotel buildings!! Does anyone here know how such storms form and whether it is more frequent/severe far inland than it is near the coast? Oh, and of course, like Havard, let me express my sympathies with all those affected by natural disasters all over the globe. :-) Jesper
#5 pointman Oct 24, 2005 15:51:09	Not a common occurence, the more powerful storms require certain conditions to generate such destructive forces. Sounds like Tornadoes were involved. Cold air descending from the mountains may have clashed with warm air rising combining to create such intense storm. To get a idea of what can happen i would recommend watching the Perfect Storm as the weather Meteorologists explain what is happening to create such a super-storm. .....to those affected by disaster all over the globe.