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The typhoon shelter of Causeway Bay and the Tin Hau Temple reveal that the area was once a fishing village.
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typhoon and shelter
Many fishermen were relocated from their boats parked in the typhoon shelter to the Ching Tao House, a new residential block on land, of Chueng Ching Estate.
According to other stories, Kwun Tong was a typhoon shelter for the Kowloon Water Police, which made it an important political and defence point of northwest Kowloon.
The western part of the bay is now protected from the sea by a breakwater, and forms the To Kwa Wan typhoon shelter.
The park was formerly a typhoon shelter known as Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, part of Victoria Harbour, used as a refuge by fishing boats and yachts during typhoon seasons.
Ap Lei Chau shelters Aberdeen Harbour, creating an excellent typhoon shelter, and was a fishing village before the First Opium War.
In its usual form, a typhoon shelter is usually in the form of a bay or a cove, with a narrow opening for access, as most of the opening to the seas are blocked by a man-made breakwater.
A typhoon shelter, as it name suggests, is used by small to medium ships as a shelter against gale force winds and rough seas during a typhoon strike.
It is also used to moor yachts-the shelter in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong is often used for that purpose-and some typhoon shelters have wharves for cargo.
Typhoon shelter crab (), a dish served in a many of Hong Kong Chinese restaurants, is believed to have originated from the typhoon shelters.
typhoon and Bay
* 1281 – August 15 – The second Mongol invasion of Japan is foiled at the Battle of Kōan ( or Battle of Hakata Bay ) as a large typhoon — famously called a kamikaze, or divine wind — destroys much of the combined Chinese and Korean fleet and forces, numbering over 140, 000 men and 4, 000 ships.
* August 12 – Battle of Kōan ( Hakata Bay ): The second Mongol invasion of Japan is foiled, as a large typhoon – famously called a kamikaze, or divine wind – destroys much of the combined Chinese and Korean fleet and forces, numbering over 140, 000 men and 4, 000 ships.
According to the India Meteorological Department ( IMD ), Gay was the first typhoon since 1891 to form in the Gulf of Thailand and enter the Bay of Bengal.
Around 0000 UTC on June 15, Yunya made landfall just north of Dingalan Bay as a minimal typhoon and weakened to a tropical storm shortly thereafter.
typhoon and area
: Tropical cyclones form in the oceans if the conditions in the area are favorable, and depending on their strength and location, there are various terms by which they are called, such as tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon.
Compared with the rest of the country, the climate in Malaybalay is relatively cooler the whole year round and the area is not on the typhoon belt.
Whilst relatively tectonically stable for Japan, the area is prone to the occasional typhoon during the season.
The earliest record of Kavalan in history was in 1632, when a Spanish ship went astray to this area by a typhoon.
Summer is also typhoon season, however, since Kurihara is so far north and inland the area is rarely affected.
A typhoon had passed through the area a few days before the radon spike was measured, but when Typhoon Angela, one of the most powerful to strike the area in ten years, crossed Luzon on almost the same track a year later, no radon spike was measured.
Typhoon is seldom felt in the area as Tulunan is located outside of the typhoon belt and is protected by small mountains.
However, it was also evident that the materials used were substandard due to its massive damage when a typhoon struck the area months after its completion.
Although the agricultural land area is wide enough for the farmers, mostly the cultivation is being limited by the excessive rainfall and the regular sweeping of the typhoon on Samar Islands.
A few years ago this island has a surface area of more than 5 hectares but strong waves brought by a strong typhoon washed out the sandy surface ( beach ) of the island leaving behind today the calcarenite foundation that can be seen at low tide.
On July 2, a low pressure area formed north west of the Philippines and became a tropical depression on July 3 and started to drifted northward, becoming a storm on the 5th and a typhoon on the 6th.
On July 29, a cluster of thunderstorms quickly form a low pressure area, which became a tropical depression 12w on August 1. Favorable conditions allow the system to rapidly intensify as it was named: " Jelawat ", and soon which peak intensity on August 2 as a Category 4 typhoon. On August 3 Jelawat weakened into a category 2 typhoon due to slightly high wind shear. On August 6, Jelawat strengthened into a category 3 typhoon, due to more favorable conditions, and started to develop a large eye at 60kilometers across. Weak steering winds soon caused Jelawat to drift slowly on from August 7-August 8. On August 7, Jelawat undergo an eyewall replacement cycle for 4 hours, and became Doughnut looking, asymmetric typhoon, with a large, symmetric eye at 170kilometers across surrounded by a thick ring of intense convection. After developing the large symmetric eye, Jelawat strengthened again from a category 1 typhoon, to a category 2 typhoon, but soon weakened into a category 1 typhoon as it encountered wind shear as it made landfall at southern Shanghai.
On August 14, a low pressure area formed south of the Mariana islands and started to organize. On August 17 the low pressure area became a tropical depression and as it tracked northwestward, becoming a tropical storm on the 18th and a typhoon on the 19th.
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