Formation of a Hurricane
- To function properly, Tropical cyclones need warm and moist air as fuel. So that, to form a tropical cyclone, the first ingredient is worm ocean water, where rain clouds are being built. In this regard, tropical cyclones form only in tropical regions. Here the ocean is at least 46 degrees C for at least at the top 165 feet below the surface.
- The wind is the second component of a tropical storm. The wind moving across the Atlantic from Africa to the west supplies the essential component for hurricanes to form in the Atlantic Ocean. Water on the ocean’s surface evaporates (becomes water vapour) and rises as the wind blows over it. Big cumulonimbus clouds are created as the water vapour cools and condenses again into large drops of water as it climbs. It is only the beginning.
What is Hurricane?
Among tropical cyclones, a hurricane is one of them. A tropical cyclone is a weather system that rotates rapidly. It is characterized by a low-pressure centre and a closed atmospheric circulation at low elevations. It also has an arrangement of thunderstorms which is a spiral that produces heavy rain. A hurricane occurs in the northeast of the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the northwest of the Pacific Ocean, or in the Indian Ocean. The biggest and most destructive storms on Earth are hurricanes.
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