Hurricanes

This is also equivalent to a daily explosion of 500000 atomic bombs, the 20-kiloton Nagasaki variety. And then most recently, Hurricane Bonnie that hit in the Carolinas, causing tremendous damage and devastation. They have winds and rain and make up most of the diameter of the storm but nothing as powerful as the wall clouds. They collect such information as air pressure, temperature, and wind speeds. 6 X 1013 kilowatt-hour, which is 8000 times more than all the electrical power generated in the United States in one day. This was the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere the winds move around the eye clockwise. e around the eye of the storm are called wall clouds. Eight Hurricanes occur a year on average but as many as 15 have occurred in one years time in the Atlantic Ocean. This is why nature is so amazing, making hurricanes, one of nature’s most powerful weapons, even more amazing. There is a scale in which hurricanes are rated on and that is the Saffir Simpson Scale. By doing all this they will be able to forecast where and when a hurricane will begin, where it will travel, and how strong it is going to be. In the Northern Hemisphere the winds of a Hurricane move around the eye counter clockwise due the gravitational pull from the North Pole. These storm surges cause lots of flooding and damage to coastlines, especially if they happen at high tide.