7 Steps: Life Cycle Of A Hurricane

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Humidity + Hot air and Cold air

- In hummid weather, cold air from the sea rises a meets the warmer winds in the air creating a circl low pressure area

Warmer Winds

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Eye Of The Storm - The centre of the hurricane has the lowest wind speeds but is surrounded by storm clouds.

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Depending on the w three different typ weakest to strong Depression, Tropica Typhoon/Tropical C further devided int

Thunderstorms

torms clouds outwards a circular motion.

windspeed, there are pes of Hurricane. From gest; Tropical al Storm and Cyclone. Typhoons are to 4 catagories.

Move

Storms tend to dift toward their respective poles and westward.

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Depending on which side of the equator the storm is formed it will either spin clockwise or anticlockwise, which adds a further curve to it’s path.

This phinominom is called Enviromental Stearing.

High Winds

High Winds

High Winds

Destruction Hurricanes cause large waves, floods and destructive gail force winds. Winds can up root buildings, destroy stuctures and can cause mass damge by hurling debris.

Over the last 200 Years Hurricanes have caused approximately 1.9 Million deaths.

In 1926 Miami was hit by the Great Miami Hurricane. It caused $164.8 Billion worth of damage. (accounting for inflation), making it the most destructive recorede Hurricane in history.

Landfall is when the eye storm conditions have a landfall a storm surge c the eye causing high tid

Landfall

e of the storm crosses the coastline although affected the land hours before. However during could be created by the high pressure winds around des

Disapation With no cooler air to power the storm, the hurricane disappates, leaving only it’s trail of destruction.

In 2015 we can look forwards to meeting these storms: Ana Bill Claudette Danny Erika Fred Grace Henri Ida Joaquin Kate Larry Mindy Nicholas Odette Peter Rose Sam Teresa Victor Wanda