APAKAH MAKSUD TORNADO dalam MELAYU?
Puting beliung
Puting beliung atau
tornado ialah sebuah tiub angin berpusing yang menyentuh tanah dan awan kumulonimbus. Angin yang berada di dalam puting beliung berpusing dengan pantas dan menjadikan puting beliung sangat berbahaya. Kebanyakan puting beliung mempunyai angin selaju 175 km/j atau kurang, dengan lebar 250 kaki, dan bergerak beberapa kilometer sebelum "lenyap". Walau bagaimanapun, sesetengah puting beliung mempunyai angin selaju 480 km/j, dengan lebar lebih daripada, dan boleh bergerak melebihi 100 kilometer. Puting beliung seringkali terjadi semasa hujan ribut petir angin kuat dan mendatangkan banyak kemusnahan kepada apa-apa sahaja yang disentuhnya. Saban tahun, ada nyawa yang terkoban akibat puting beliung.
Definisi tornado dalam kamus Melayu
tornado ribut angin yg sangat kuat dgn tiupan anginnya kencang berpusar-pusar dan menyebabkan kerosakan teruk, biasanya berlaku di Amerika Syarikat dan Australia.
MELAYU BUKU YANG BERKAIT DENGAN «TORNADO»
Ketahui penggunaan
tornado dalam pilihan bibliografi berikut. Buku yang berkait dengan
tornado dan ekstrak ringkas dari yang sama untuk menyediakan konteks penggunaannya dalam kesusasteraan Melayu.
1
Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains
Details the history of the study of tornadoes and the thunderstorms that spawn them, and documents encounters with tornadoes
Howard B. Bluestein,
2006
2
How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things ...
3. The. yuck. factor. Welcome to the world of yuck, or what the academic world calls grossology. Anybody who had anything to do with the creation of this book insisted that we include a chapter on the yuck factor. Which, as luck would have it, ...
3
The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm
A guide to tornado formation and lifecycle also covers such topics as forecasting, wind speeds, tornado myths, tornado safety, risks, and records, along with accounts of the deadliest tornadoes in the United States.
In Tornado Down, John Peters and John Nichol tell the incredible story of their part in the war against Saddam Hussien's regime.
John Nichol, John Peters, William Pearson,
2002
Describes the formation, different types, and study of tornadoes.
6
Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, ...
Updated for the HarperBusiness Essentials series with a new author's note.
7
Tornado Warning: A Memoir of Teen Dating Violence and ...
At 17 she unwittingly fell in love with an abusive man. Tornado Warning is the true, honest portrait of how he whittled her down with words, hands, and weapons from a confident teen to the shadow of a woman. But Stebbins Waldal offers more.
Elin Stebbins Waldal,
2011
Presents information about tornadoes, using a narrative in which Wendy learns that her new school doesn't have a safety plan for tornadoes and works to change the situation before a tornado can hit.
Examines the nature, origins, and dangers of tornadoes and discusses the warning system that detects them and alerts people in their path.
Describes how tornadoes form, ongoing research to better understand why they form when they do, and histories of some of the worst storms to ever occur.