Below is a list of typical job descriptions for our retail locations. The UPS Store associates are employees or independent contractors of the independently owned and operated The UPS Store franchisees and are not employees or independent contractors of The UPS Store. Inc., or UPS. Center Manager.
The sustained and powerful winds of a hurricane will cause salty ocean water to pile up and surge onshore. These âstorm surgesâ can be huge. Hurricane Ireneâs surges brought water levels that were as much as 8 feet above normal high tide and Katrina pushed a 30 foot high surge onto the coast.
Fish populations in one part of the ocean might crash, while others thrive and spread well beyond their usual territory. The GOES-West satellite observed four tropical cyclones roiling the Pacific on September 1, 2015, during an El NiÃ±o event. (Image courtesy of the NASA/NOAA GOES Project.) During an El NiÃ±o event, the surface waters in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean become significantly warmer than usual. That change is intimately tied to the atmosphere and to the winds blowing over the vast Pacific. Easterly trade winds (which blow from the Americas toward Asia) falter and can even turn around into westerlies.