Hurricanes

Introduction

Hurricane is a mighty, spiraling gale that begins over a moderately hot ocean, beside the equator. When a hurricane hits land, it can do great damage through their strong winds, torrential rains, flooding inland and huge waves crashing ashore (Hirschmann 32). A powerful hurricane can kill more people and destroy more property than any other natural disasters.

Hurricanes are given different labels, depending on where they occur. If they start over the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or the Northeast Pacific Ocean, they are called hurricanes. As storms, which occur in north-western Pacific Ocean to the west of the imaginary International Date Line are called typhoons. Next to Australia and the Indian Ocean they are called as tropical cyclones.

Christopher Columbus was the first European in up to date times to compose about the hurricane. Indians of Guatemala are called by God stormy weather "Hunrakan"(Lakin 32). These names were probably working throughout the Caribbean. Captain Fernando de Oviedo gave the storm their current name when he wrote, "So when the devil wants to intimidate them, he promises them" Huracan "which means" storm ". The same storm in other parts of the world is known as typhoons, baqulros, Bengal cyclones, and willy-shaking.

Ocean water temperature must be above 79 F degrees to the hurricane, which will be created, so they usually form in late summer and early autumn, when the conditions. Meteorologists use the term tropical storm when wind storms are under 74 miles per hour, and a hurricane when wind speed increases. Hurricane peaceful center called the eye, which is often characterized in satellite images (Ricciulli 172). Eyes range from 10 to 30 miles wide and often contain calm winds, high temperatures and clear skies. Around this tropical bliss crazy winds gust at speeds up to 186 miles per hour. If one percent of the energy in a single hurricane can be captured, all power, fuel, and heating requirements of the United States can be met throughout the year. It takes 500 trillion horsepower spinning the big major winds at such tremendous speeds. This is equivalent to the explosion of the atomic bomb every 10 seconds.

How Hurricanes Work

Hurricanes are huge storms! They can be up to 600 km across and have strong winds spiral inward and upward at a rate of 75 to 200 miles per hour each hurricane lasts for a week, moving 10-20 miles per hour over the open ocean.

With warm air in its center, the hurricane is different from extra tropical cyclones, which are the most common type of storm in the United States. In the center of the storm there is a calm part(Stewart 340). It is called the eye and only light winds and clear weather. Low levels of the storm winds blow counterclockwise around the eye in the Northern Hemisphere (clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere). Over 9 km, the winds spiral outwards and clockwise in the northern hemisphere.Effects

Hurricanes are doing important work for the Earth. They help move heat from the warm tropical ...