What are the two main parts of a hurricane?
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Wind and storm surge.
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There is an incredible amount of energy in a hurricane.\n\n"A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x10^13 watts, and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes."\n\nBy comparison, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 was 0.013 megatons. Multiply that times about 700, and that's equivalent to the energy released every 20 minutes by a hurricane.\n\nNow you have an idea of how powerful these storms are.  There is just no known way to dissipate that much energy.
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1:)rain\n   leaf\n   night.....\n   lots of things\n2:)the other half\n3:)AGE
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They last until it hits land.\nThat's when it begins to slow down and lose its power.\n\nBut they do f-ck things up as hit makes landfall.\nRemember Katrina?
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Two Things. The Coriolis Effect, and the Bermuda High.\n  First, is The Coriolis Effect. Since the Earth spins Everything on the ground spins with it. It is easier to explain in examples. So, imagine the earth like a round cardboard circle. Start spinning the cardboard, but not too fast.. Put a ruler just above the spinning, so it doesn't actually touch the cardboard. Draw a line using the ruler as a straight edge. Notice how the "straight" line is curved. \n  Now think of a hurricane as a straight line. It starts to curve when it goes north.\n  The Bermuda High is a high pressure. The winds at the high pressure spin clockwise. When Hurricanes go north, the clockwise winds push it northeast. This also explains why some hurricanes go right along the eastern coast and curves back towards Europe.
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In all reality, Hurricanes are thunderstorms that have gotten out of hand. The following website explains in further detail. It may be slow to load, but it's a great informative site! Hope this answers your question!\n\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/hurricane2.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane
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Tornado, lasts minutes.  Thunderstorms hours, Blizzard hours to a day or so.  Hurricane, day to several days.
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Try the National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ - there's tons of good information on this site.
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1. Blizzard\n2. Flash flood\n3. Typhoon\n4. Funnel cloud\n5. Tornado\n6. Monsoon
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In the Atlantic basin, at least two storms have killed more than 10,000 people. Hurricane Mitch during the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season caused severe flooding and mudslides in Honduras, killing about 18,000 people and changing the landscape enough that entirely new maps of the country were needed. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which made landfall at Galveston, Texas as an estimated Category 4 storm, killed 8,000 to 12,000 people, and remains the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. The deadliest Atlantic storm on record was the Great Hurricane of 1780, which killed about 22,000 people in the Antilles.\n\n \nThe relative sizes of Typhoon Tip, Tropical Cyclone Tracy, and the United States.The most intense storm on record was Typhoon Tip in the northwestern Pacific Ocean in 1979, which had a minimum pressure of only 870 mbar and maximum sustained wind speeds of 190 mph (305 km/h). It weakened before striking Japan. Tip does not hold the record for fastest sustained winds in a cyclone alone; Typhoon Keith in the Pacific, and Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Allen in the North Atlantic currently share this record as well [15], although recorded wind speeds that fast are suspect, since most monitoring equipment is likely to be destroyed by such conditions.\n\nCamille was the only storm to actually strike land while at that intensity, making it, with 190 mph (305 km/h) sustained winds and 210 mph (335 km/h) gusts, the strongest tropical cyclone of record to ever hit land. For comparison, these speeds are encountered at the center of a strong tornado, but Camille, like all tropical cyclones, was much larger and long-lived than any tornado.\n\nTyphoon Nancy in 1961 had recorded wind speeds of 213 mph (343 km/h), but recent research indicates that wind speeds from the 1940s to the 1960s were gauged too high, and this is no longer considered the fastest storm on record. [16] Similarly, a gust caused by Typhoon Paka over Guam was recorded at 236 mph (380 km/h); however, this reading had to be discarded, since the anemometer was damaged by the storm. Had it been confirmed, this would be the strongest non-tornadic wind ever recorded at the Earth's surface. (The current record is held by a non-hurricane wind registering 231 mph (372 km/h) at Mount Washington in New Hampshire.) [17]\n\nTip was also the largest cyclone on record, with a circulation 1,350 miles (2,170 km) wide. The average tropical cyclone is only 300 miles (480 km) wide. The smallest storm on record, 1974's Cyclone Tracy, which devastated Darwin, Australia, was roughly 30 miles (50 km) wide. [18]\n\nHurricane Iniki in 1992 was the most powerful storm to strike Hawaii in recorded history, hitting Kauai as a Category 4 hurricane, killing six and causing $3 billion in damage.\n\n \nThe first recorded South Atlantic hurricaneOn March 26, 2004, Cyclone Catarina became the first recorded South Atlantic hurricane. Previous South Atlantic cyclones in 1991 and 2004 reached only tropical storm strength. Hurricanes may have formed there prior to 1960 but were not observed until weather satellites began monitoring the Earth's oceans in that year.\n\nA tropical cyclone need not be particularly strong to cause memorable damage; Tropical Storm Allison in June 2001 had its name retired for killing 41 people and causing over $5 billion damage in East Texas, even though it never became a hurricane; the damage from Allison was mostly due to flooding, not winds or storm surge. Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 was only a tropical storm when it made a glancing blow on Haiti, but the flooding and mudslides it caused killed over 3,000 people.\n\nOn August 29 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi. The U.S. National Hurricane Center, in its August review of the tropical storm season stated that Katrina is probably the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Its death toll is above 1300, mainly from flooding and the aftermath. It is also es
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In meteorology, a tropical cyclone is a storm system with a closed circulation around a center of low pressure, fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and condenses. The name underscores their origin in the tropics and their cyclonic nature. They are distinguished from other cyclonic storms such as nor'easters and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems.\n\nDepending on their strength and location, a tropical cyclone can be called a tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane, or typhoon, among other names.\n\nTropical cyclones can produce extremely high winds, tornadoes, torrential rain (leading to mudslides and flash floods), and drive storm surge onto coastal areas. Though the effects on populations and ships can be catastrophic, tropical cyclones have been known to relieve drought conditions. They carry heat away from the tropics, an important mechanism of the global atmospheric circulation that maintains equilibrium in the environment.\n\nthey r just d same\n\nTerms used in weather reports for tropical cyclones that have surface winds over 64 knots (73.6 mph) or 32 m/s vary by region:\n\nHurricane: Atlantic basin and North Pacific Ocean east of the International date line \nTyphoon: Northwest Pacific west of the dateline \nSevere tropical cyclone: Southwest Pacific west of 160°E and the southeast Indian Ocean east of 90°E \nSevere cyclonic storm: North Indian Ocean \nTropical cyclone: Southwest Indian Ocean and the South Pacific east of 160°E. \nCyclone (unofficially): South Atlantic Ocean \nThere are many regional names for tropical cyclones, including baguio in the Philippines and Taino in Haiti.
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yes.  Hurricanes redistribute the heat of the planet.  The planet is trying to rebalance itself.
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Increase.  I have seen a tornado up close, like right over head.  It brought in two different winds and they ran around in a circle.  The faster they blew, the stronger the storm.  A hurricane is like a great big whirlwind.  A large amount of the damage attributed to a hurricane is often done by the tornadoes it creates by the unstable air on its edges.  Best advice...Stay out of their way.
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Hurricanes are intense low pressure  areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall. Their source of energy is water vapor  which is evaporated from the ocean surface. Water vapor is the "fuel" for the hurricanes because it releases the "latent heat of condensation" when it condenses to form clouds and rain, warming the surrounding air. (This heat energy was absorbed by the water vapor when it was evaporated from the warm ocean surface, cooling the ocean in the process.) Usually, the heat released in this way in tropical thunderstorms is carried away by wind shear, which blows the top off the thunderstorms. But when there is little wind shear, this heat can build up, causing low pressure to form. The low pressure causes wind to begin to spiral inward toward the center of the low. These winds help to evaporate even more water vapor from the ocean, spiraling inward toward the center, feeding more showers and thunderstorms, and warming the upper atmosphere still more. The showers and thunderstorms where all of this energy is released are usually organized into bands (sometimes called "rainbands" or "feeder bands"), as well as into an "eyewall" encircling the center of the storm. The eyewall is where the strongest winds occur, which encircle the warmest air, in the eye of the hurricane. This warmth in the eye is produced by sinking air, which sinks in response to rising air in the thunderstorms. The winds diminish rapidly moving from the eyewall to the inside of the relatively cloud-free eye, where calm winds can exist.\nhurricane eyes seen from the Space Shuttle and from aircraft\nHurricane intensity is based upon the highest sustained (1 minute average) wind speed the hurricane is producing. The "Saffir-Simpson" scale rates hurricane strength in this way from Category 1 to Category 5. These categories were chosen based upon the amount of damage that each category can produce.\nIntensity Wind Speed Damage\nCategory 1 74- 95 mph MINIMAL: tree branches, shrubs, unanchored mobile homes\nCategory 2 96-110 mph MODERATE: mobile homes, poorly constructed buildings, some trees down\nCategory 3 111-130 mph EXTENSIVE: small buildings damaged, large trees down, mobile homes destroyed\nCategory 4 131-155 mph EXTREME: outer walls damaged, roof failure on small buildings, extensive damage to doors and windows, mobile homes destroyed\nCategory 5 >155 mph CATASTROPHIC: complete roof failure on many buildings, some buildings destroyed, severe window and door damage, mobile homes destroyed\nIn low-lying areas, much of the damage from hurricanes can be from the "storm surge", in which water being blown onshore by the high winds rises rapidly. The storm surge can destroy the lower floors of some buildings, or even destroy the foundations of residences causing the homes to wash away. The storm surge can also trap residents from evacuating along low-lying escape routes.\n\nHurricanes almost always travel poleward at the end of their life cycle, helping to transport excess heat out of the tropics toward higher latitudes. They gradually die as they move over cooler waters, which do not have the heat energy necessary to evaporate sufficent water vapor into the atmosphere to fuel the hurricane. If the hurricane crosses over to land, the heat source is removed entirely. With the removal of the energy source, and the greater surface friction of the land's terrain and vegetation, the hurricane's winds rapidly decrease.
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its a giant storm  like a hurricane thats been going on for a logn time bout size of earth i think
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tornados have a much higher wind scale than hurricanes do.  an F5 tornado has winds up to 318mph.  hurricanes go up to category 5.  a category 5 has winds higher than 155mph, but I've never heard of one that's had winds higher than 200mph.  it's a misconception that hurricanes cause more damage b/c of their sheer size, but the most damaging part of a hurricane is the Northeast side of the storm.  whereas a tornado is damaging no matter where it hits you b/c it just sucks everything right on up and can go on for miles and miles.  hurricanes almost always weaken when they completely come ashore.
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Hurricanes, because they have the vast supply of warm, moist air at their disposal, whereas the other two, their conditions are only prime for a few hours, or in a tornado's case, minutes, where a hurricane can last for a few weeks, if you count the pre- and post hurricane status.