Cyclone Damage, 1896
by Science Source
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Cyclone Damage, 1896
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Science Source
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Furniture Warehouse, Jefferson Avenue and Lasalle Street. St. Louis, Missouri, May 27, 1896. A cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth.This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale cyclonic circulations are centered on areas of low atmospheric pressure.
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