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Blast Wind [a] is a 1997 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Technosoft for the Sega Saturn. In the game, the player controls one of two artificial life forms piloting ships to fight the invading Gorn culture. The player can take an alternate path by pressing switches in each stage.
The blast wind is the area of low pressure that causes debris and fragments to rush back towards the original explosions. The blast wave can also cause fires or secondary explosions by a combination of the high temperatures that result from detonation and the physical destruction of fuel-containing objects.
The blast wind at sea level may exceed 1,000 km/h, or ~300 m/s, approaching the speed of sound in air. The range for blast effects increases with the explosive yield of the weapon and also depends on the burst altitude.
A powerful storm system pummeled Hawaii Thursday with flash flooding, damaging wind gusts, severe thunderstorms and blizzard-like conditions on the high mountain peaks.
A brutal blast of bitterly cold arctic air engulfed the central states and spread further south and east to end the week. As the cold hung on, we saw additional daily record temperatures set from ...
Wind chills in Duluth, Minnesota, on Tuesday morning dropped as cold as minus 50 degrees. Below is a look at the latest wind chills showing where the heart of this arctic blast is located now ...
Displacement of air by the explosion creates a blast wind that can throw victims against solid objects. [3] Injuries resulting from this type of traumatic impact are referred to as tertiary blast injuries. Tertiary injuries may present as some combination of blunt and penetrating trauma, including bone fractures and coup contre-coup injuries ...
Maximum wind speeds reaching 190 km/h (120 mph) were surveyed and analyzed by the Northern Tornados Project, in an area measuring approximately 36 km (22 mi) long and 5 km (3 mi) wide. [ 50 ] 10 people were killed and many communities experienced significant damage and power outages spanning days as a result of the derecho that moved across ...