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In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Typhon is called the "dweller of the Cilician caves", [10] and both Apollodorus and the poet Nonnus (4th or 5th century AD) have Typhon born in Cilicia. [11] The b scholia to Iliad 2.783, preserving a possibly Orphic tradition, has Typhon born in Cilicia, as the offspring of Cronus. Gaia, angry at the destruction ...
A rare and deadly winter storm descended across the southern U.S. on Tuesday, leaving inches of record-setting snow totals and halting travel for millions of Americans in Louisiana, Texas and Florida.
Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
In French typhon was attested as storm in 1504. [17] Portuguese traveler Fernão Mendes Pinto referred to a tufão in his memoir published in 1614. [ 18 ] The earliest form in English was "touffon" (1588), [ 16 ] later as touffon, tuffon, tufon, tuffin, tuffoon, tayfun, tiffoon, typhawn.
Arimoi in Greek mythology are the people in whose country (or τὰ Ἄριμα – the place in which) lies under the ground bound by Typhon.. Homer describes a place he calls the "couch [or bed] of Typhoeus", which he locates in the land of the Arimoi (εἰν Ἀρίμοις), where Zeus lashes the land about Typhoeus with his thunderbolts. [1]
Typhoon Texas Austin is located in Pflugerville, Texas. The park was part of the Hawaiian Falls water park chain from 2014-2016. The Park covers 25 acres (10 ha) of land, a majority of which is parking lots, and includes zip lines and rope courses (although these have been closed for years). It reopened with its current name in 2017.
Depictions of Typhoon Tip and Cyclone Tracy (one of the smallest tropical cyclones ever recorded) superimposed on a map of the United States. Typhoon Tip was the largest tropical cyclone on record, with a diameter of 1,380 mi (2,220 km)—almost double the previous record of 700 mi (1,130 km) in diameter set by Typhoon Marge in August 1951.
The southern tip of Texas will see the most severe impact from Hurricane Beryl. Heat indices near 110℉ will pose risks on Friday, followed by wind gusts of 25 to 30 miles per hour Friday afternoon.