So Far, 1,342 LG Students Opt for In-Person Instruction
At Monday’s meeting, the La Grange school board voted to develop an new policy stating that for a student to participate in any extracurricular activity, practice, or performance or elective course open only to students participating in a particular UIL activity, the student must be enrolled in in-person classes at the time of participation for the 2020-2021 school year.
Painted Bunting in Muldoon
Cheyenne Sayger has enjoyed watching this painted bunting living near her back yard. The bird comes to the bird bath and teacup feeder in the afternoons. She thought the bird might be of interest to readers because painted buntings are decreasing in population. Sayger and the painted bunting live on FM 609 in the Muldoon area.
Looking at the Different Types Of Tropical Weather Patterns
With Hurricane Hanna making landfall just over a week ago there have been a few requests to clear up the confusion of other terms such as typhoons, cyclones and other terms for ocean storms. Cyclones, hurricanes, or typhoons what’s the difference? It’s all based on the location of the storm across the globe. Hurricane is the term used for a strong tropical storm in the ocean waters surrounding the United States, the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific oceans. Typhoon is the name in the Northwest Pacific close to Japan and Korea, these storms form just west of Hawaii and the Marshall Islands and head either due west or northwest from their point of origin. Cyclone is the proper meteorological storm for large ocean storms such as hurricanes all across the world, but is most commonly used in the South Pacific in countries like India, The Philippines and Malaysia. What is interesting with cyclones and typhoons is that their season is much longer than our seasons for hurricanes. Whereas we have hurricane season from August to early November. Cyclone season is from November to April as it is in the Southern hemisphere and the seasons are flipped. Typhoons most often occur between May to October, but they can form and make landfall at any time throughout the year. Finally the trickiest of all, Tropical Storms, going by the true definition of the word, all storms that are formed close to the equator that are too small to be called a hurricane or cyclone, but too big to be called a tropical depression. These parameters for naming a storm are as follows. Tropical depressions are large rotating tropical systems that have a maximum sustained surface wind speed under 38 mph. Tropical storms are tropical cyclones that have sustained surface wind speeds of 39 to 73 mph. Hurricanes are tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface wind speeds of 74 mph and higher. Now that this has been cleared up let’s go into the forecast for the week. Now that Hannah has gotten out of our area we are back to hot and humid central Texas summer with an average high of 97 for the rest of the week and up to 102 on the weekend. There are no astronomical events to report.
