Hurricanes

             Hurricanes are apart of societies everyday life; they approach our coastlines with mass terror and destruction on their mind. They have the power to destroy and kill anything that comes in their whirling path and are the most dangerous and most expensive storms that humans have ever experienced. Hurricanes can move across oceans swiftly but with no precise pattern.
             Hurricanes are formed from simple complexes of thunderstorms. However, these thunderstorms can only grow to hurricane strength with cooperation from both the ocean and the atmosphere. Hurricanes are born over warm, tropical oceans, because they are fueled by water vapor that is pushed up from the warm ocean surface, so they can last longer and sometimes move much further over water than over land. The combination of heat and moisture, along with the right wind conditions, can create a new hurricane. First of all, the ocean water itself must be warmer than 26.5 degrees Celsius (81°F). The heat and moisture from this warm water is ultimately the source of energy for hurricanes. Hurricanes will weaken rapidly when they travel over land or colder ocean waters and locations with insufficient heat or moisture. Hurricanes that are related to having warm ocean water, high relative humidity in the lower and middle troposphere are also required in the recipe for a hurricanes ingredient. The high humidity can reduce the amount of evaporation in clouds and maximizes the latent heat released because there is more precipitation. The concentration of latent heat is critical to driving the system because the vertical wind shear in a tropical cyclone's environment is also important. The amount of change in the wind's or speed with increasing altitude is called wind shear.
             A hurricane consists of a calm central zone called the eye, which is surrounded by swirling bands of clouds also known as wall clouds and rain clouds. With these two forces combined they bring a torrential ...

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