Hurricane Ocean Temperature Science Fair Projects

Storms

Extreme weather is very fun to study. However, you need to be careful about how you interpret your data.

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Methods/Materials

Computer with internet access and a printer.

Results

The data I#ve collected shows that after collecting a total of 41 hurricanes and tropical storms. It turned out that the hurricanes supported my hypothesis and the tropical storms didn#t. Out of a total of 22 hurricanes, 13 hurricanes showed coolness on the day it hit the buoy and the day after. This means that 59% of the hurricanes were supportive of my hypothesis. On the other hand the group of tropical storms had a total of 7 supporting and 12 not supporting. This made for a total of 36% of the tropical storms supporting and 63 % not supporting. This shows that the stronger the storm then the cooler the ocean.

Conclusions/Discussion

In conclusion my data showed that 59% of the hurricane data did support my hypothesis, and only 36% of my tropical storm data supported my hypothesis. I feel that this is a good percentage of data in support of my hypothesis. However I do believe that if I would have collected more hurricane and tropical storm data it might have led to a higher percentage of supporting data, which have helped me in the long run for the science fair. Here I used the variables in this experiment were hurricanes verses tropical storms. All together out of my science project I feel that I would have had a better understanding of interpreting the data represented by the graphs. I also wonder what would have happened if I had had more data. Would my hypothesis have been better supported or less well supported. I also have questions about how hurricanes affect sea creatures. Knowing that a stronger storm does cool the ocean has led me to come up with many more questions, and another opportunity to study and learn. 3rd party contributor