a hurricane is passing over a caribbean island the wind and rain stops, is it safe to go outside? explain?
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No.  You'd probably be in the eye of the hurricane, which is basically the hole in the center that the storm rotates around.  It's calm for a couple of hours and then the storm picks up again.  Of course, if the eye has already passed, it's probably fine ;)
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Last summer at the tv station I interned with, one of the meteorologists went in a wind tunnel to show what wind speeds in a hurricane are like.  I just found the video on their website - \nat 95 mph: "I don't know how any human being could remain on their feet if they tried to move at all."\n108 was all he could make it up to because it was too hard to breathe.
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Tropical; moderated by trade winds; dry season (November to April); rainy season (May to October)\n\nThe Cuba weather is mild subtropical, thanks to its proximity to the Tropic of Cancer, its narrow configuration, east to west oriented receives the refreshing action of tradewinds and marine breezes. During the short winter are influences of cold air masses coming from the North, but they are of short duration. The average temperature throughout the year oscillates between the 20 and 35ºC, lowering sometimes to 10°C. The Eastern region enjoys a warmer weather than the western and the variations of temperature between the day and the night are less accentuated in the coastal regions that in inland. Those that enjoy the beach will be glad to know that the average water temperature surpasses 25°C.\n\nBy its geographic situation, the country is affected between June 1st and 30th November by the cyclone season. They can affect the island in hurricane form with winds that goes up to 200 km/h and heavy storms. This cyclone stage agrees approximately with the rainy season (May to October), in front of the dry one (November to April).\n\nThe experience of a cyclone emergency is a moving but non dangerous fact; all the hotels have modern structure or are rehabilitated and protected to receive the phenomenon. Around all the streets are circulating vehicles with megaphones giving instructions to the population and is requested only to leave the houses in case of extreme need. In the buildings, the person in charge places instructions in the lobby for the guests and the windows as the doors are protected. For the non Caribbean visitors it is a new experience; the television, that exceptionally emits by the morning, initiates to first hours its emissions with weather parts.
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Nothing!  Seismic Waves are caused by earthquakes not hurricanes.  A good transmit means certain substance aid wave movement and others hinder wave movement,\nHurricanes cause high wind, spawn tornadoes, cause flooding from heavy rain and tidal surges and usually effect large areas.
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The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.  Yes, the answer is blowing in the wind.
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Wind and storm surge.
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somewhere out there! lol\nin a place where there's a typhoon or storm!
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Theoretically, a hurricane could be aborted by rapid, extensive cooling of the ocean underneath (we are far away from being able to do something like that, but we're talking theoretical).  The force of a hurricane equals a nuclear bomb every 15 seconds or so-and covers thousands of square miles.  Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane would likely have almost no effect on it.  If there were an effect, it would likely increase the force of the hurricane, not decrease it, since it would increase the amount of energy and heat available.
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well, it's carribean islandS and they're right where hurricanes usually strike...but there's different reasons...
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To which hurricane are you referring to? Hurricanes never have done good. I have been through five or six in the past eleven years and it is not fun to sit through one worring if this is the worst of it. Evacuating is not much fun either as you worry if you have anything left. It is not only human lives that are disrupted or lost, but those of animals and the environment.
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A large storm pulls energy from as far around as it can reach. Therefore if the storm moving is pulling all the heat and moisture out of the air around it, then there is a void of mayhem, a calm, before the actual storm throws back all that was there to begin with.
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High pressure is hot. If it hits a low pressure area, you get rain.
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yes there is ,,in an eye of a hurricane or a tornado
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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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Have you ever seen trees still, then suddenly start shaking around or "swaying" inexplicably--with no one else around? Have you ever been in or seen a sailboat?  The motion of acceleration that did not come from an engine is to be explained how?  Have you ever driven with your windows open?  Storms do not just stay in one place, rather they proceed across the continent.  All of these things are attributable to....WIND! I win lol!  P.S. Just because you haven't seen something--doesn't mean it doesn't exist: ex= a baby pigeon!  lol
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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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There are so many online resources for this, why would you ask here?\n\nFind these sites or ask at your library about: National Weather Service; National Hurricane Tracking Center; www.weather.com.