Taking a Look at Hurricanes

A hurricane is formed over warm tropical oceans. A hurricane is a severe storm.Hurricanes happen in late summer or early fall. Hurricanes spread 70-90 miles wide. Hurricanes are found over warm tropical oceans.

Most hurricanes are formed over the Atlantic Ocean. The optimal weather conditions for a hurricane to form are warm, moist air as the fuel, warm ocean water and wind. Combining all of these factors makes for a strong, powerful hurricane. Hurricanes are formed when warm, moist, air moves over the water, the warm air rises being replaced by cooler air. The cooler air starts warming and rises. This cycle repeats and creates very large storm clouds to form. The wind makes the clouds spin into a large counter-clockwise pattern. As the wind speeds pick up, it makes the clouds spin faster and making it more dangerous.

Hurricanes emerge from the tropics of the Atlantic Ocean close to the earth’s equator because it is attracted to warm water with a temperature of at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (Today’s Science, October 2004). As the temperature increases, it changes the liquid water into water vapor that forms clouds of warm, moist air causing it rise.

First, hurricanes form in warm water. Therefore, states or places closest to the equator will most likely get hurricanes. In different places, it has different names, like a typhoon or a cyclone. Hot air rises making less hot air below. It makes clouds, then circulate to form a hurricane. On the scale, a category 5 hurricane can have winds up to 157mph, maybe even more.

Winds of disaster, waves of multitude, preparations galore, the wait is on to determine the outcome of a hurricane. Being one of the most devastating and feared natural disasters, hurricanes are a brutal and unpredictable force. Never knowing what could happen or what they will do, forewarning and preparation for hurricanes are highly recommended. A hurricane is a form of a tropical cyclone or severe tropical storm that occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Southern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico (conserve-energy-future.com). The cause of a hurricane is a force of nature, but the effects that follow are to land,

A hurricane is formed by warm and cool air mixing (Hurricane Katrina). The warm air rises which cause the cool air to fall (Hurricane Katrina). Once the warm air reaches the top, it cools, then

Most hurricanes that hit the United States begin either in the Caribbean or the Atlantic. Many of the worst start as seedlings coming off the coast of Africa. Like all tropical cyclones, a hurricane needs the warm water of the tropics, which feeds a storm with energy, in order to form. Tropical cyclones are like giant engines that use warm, moist air as fuel. That is why they form only over warm ocean waters near the equator. The warm, moist air over the ocean rises upward from near the surface. Because this air moves up and away from the surface, there is less air left near the surface. Another way to say the same thing is that the warm air rises,

Hurricanes are large, twirling storms that bring strong winds that can blow up to 74 mph or higher. There are two main ingredients that hurricanes need to form, warm water, and consistent winds. If a hurricane does form, it will include the eye, which is the clam center of the storm, around that there is the eye wall which is normally the strongest part of the storm, on the edges of the hurricane are the rainbands, which are swirling “arms” of clouds, rain, and thunderstorms, they can stretch out from the eye for hundreds of miles. After a hurricane forms it is tracked by meteorologists, and other scientists researching the storms, these people categorize it using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, this scale is measured in five categories, category one has winds 74-95 mph, category two has winds 96-110 mph, category three has winds 111-129 mph, category four 130-156 mph, and finally category five has 157 mph winds and higher.

Leading up to a hurricane will start feeling warm and moist, allowing the air to become warm an humid, also allowing latent heat to spread. the next need is low pressure disturbance, also know as a tropical wave, to rise and make strong thunderstorms.if hurricanes try to form to close to the equator, it will not be strong enough to gather its self and rotate.

Hurricanes usually form over ocean areas near the Equator during summer months, since the ocean surface is at its warmest. The heat and moisture from the ocean provides the hurricane energy, and maintains it after its been formed. In this case, Hurricane Sandy travelled up north, growing colossal and relentlessly from the energy. However, if the supply of heat or moisture from the ocean is cut off, it will weaken the strength of the hurricane. Therefore, a hurricane is usually most destructive when it first moves over land. When a hurricane passes over land or cold ocean water, it loses its energy source of evaporating water and slowly dissipates.

To explain the first condition that made the storm a hurricane,one must go to the Cape Verde Islands (youtube). The islands sit near a one-hundred and twenty foot deep pool of warm water(youtube). Warm water, being a necessity when creating a hurricane makes it obvious why this hurricane along with so many others, are formed here(youtube). The hurricane then traveled across the atlantic, all that time gaining strength hit long island as a category three hurricane( the great new england hurricane). After a hurricane makes landfall, it usually gets weaker and eventually dies, however due to a large amount of warm rainfall and

The book continues by describing hurricanes and what causes them. Hurricanes are storms with strong, swirling winds up to 200 mph and can be more than 300 miles wide. These high winds are often destructive to cars, trucks, power lines, buildings and even roads. Hurricanes need heat and moisture to form. Then, “the Earth’s rotation gives the winds a twist.” (14) If the hurricanes stay near warm water, it has plenty of energy to stay strong. However, many hurricanes weaken as they reach land, since there is no warm water on land. The authors explained that there are four stages of

The first component of a hurricane forming is warm water about 80 degrees or higher without this a hurricane can not form. Mario ritter from science in the news wrote in his 2017 article about how “Hurricanes form huge weather engines that use warm, moist air as fuel”.

It takes many things to create a hurricane for example. Water vapor, “water vapor is the fuel for a hurricane because it releases the latent heat of condensation” according to Weather questions and answers.com. When the condensation comes together it forms a cloud which then forms rain warming the air around it. Usually the wind would take care of the low pressure which would result in a tropical thunderstorm but in some rare cases the wind blows over the top causing lower pressure which would result in a Hurricane.

Many factors go into of what causes hurricanes. Hurricanes are intense, low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall seasons. Water vapor is a source of energy, which can be evaporated from the ocean surface. Some meteorologists say that they are like heat engines, they take heat from the oceans and convert it to energy of their winds. They are taking that energy, thermal energy, and turning it into mechanical energy. Hurricanes are fueled by warm, moist air. They move heat from the ocean surface high into Earth’s atmosphere. These huge storms travel thousands of miles from the tropics towards the poles.