What is "Cape Verde" hurricane?
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A Cape Verde-type hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that develops near the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. The average hurricane season has about two Cape Verde-type hurricanes, which are usually the most intense storms of the season because they often have plenty of warm open ocean to develop over before encountering land.
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it's called the 'eye' of the storm, and it's calmer than any other clear day. say you're on the ocean and you're in a hurricane. you find yourself in the eye of the storm... there is no movement. the sun is shining, there is no wind, the ocean is still.
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no. if people think hurricanes are because of global warming, what about the unnamed hurricane that racked new england in 1923?\nor Camille in 1969?\nthe word itself came from an old incan word for the god of war. so apparently they've been around for hundreds of years. they are not avoidable, unless you avoid the state they hit.
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A peninsula of western Senegal projecting into the Atlantic Ocean. First sighted by the Portuguese in 1445, it is the westernmost point of Africa.
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Wind and storm surge.
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They are usually referred to as cyclones or tropical cyclones. A less official term also used is willy-willy.
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The Saffir-Simpson Scale ranks hurricanes from Category 1 to Category 5, the most powerful. \n\nCATEGORY 1\nWinds: 74 to 95 mph \n\nDamage: Minimal; signs, unanchored mobile homes, tree branches power lines blown down, some coastal flooding. Central pressure will be 28.94 inches or more and will be accompanied by a 4- to 5-foot storm surge.\n   \nCATEGORY 2\nWinds: 96 to 110 mph \n\nDamage: Moderate; larger signs, roofs, doors, windows, mobile homes, small boats, some flooding, tree branches blown down. Pressure 28.50 to 28.93 inches accompanied by a storm surge of 6 to 8 feet.\n   \nCATEGORY 3\nWinds: 111 to 130 mph \n\nDamage: Extensive; minor damage to buildings, some walls fail, mobile homes, trees blown down. Flooding washes away smaller coastal structures. Flooding up to 8 miles inland. Pressure 27.91 to 28.49 inches accompanied by a storm surge of nine to 12 feet\n   \nCATEGORY 4\nWinds: 131 to 155 mph \n\nDamage: Extreme; almost total destruction of doors, windows. Some wall and roof failure. Major damage to lower floors of oceanfront buildings. Evacuations up to 6 miles inland. Pressure 27.17 to 27.90 inches accompanied by a storm surge of 13 to 18 feet.. Hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, and Hazel were Category 4 storms.\n   \nCATEGORY 5\nWinds: More than 155 mph \n \nDamage: Catastrophic; buildings, roofs, structures destroyed. Flooding up to 10 miles inland, evacuation of area. Pressure less than 27.17 inches accompanied by a storm surge higher than 18 feet. Remember Luis in 1995
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In the same way as a butterfly flapping its wings contributes to a hurricane.
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That would be low pressure. The center, or eye, of a hurricane always has low pressure.
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The difference is where they happen.  The storms are called hurricanes in the Caribbean, the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific.  They are called typhoons in the western Pacific, and they are called cyclones in the Indian Ocean, but the physics of the storms are the same.  I believe the direction of rotation may be different, depending on whether they are in the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere.\n\nA hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone is any mass of air that spirals around a low pressure center. It is an organized collection of thunderstorms embedded in a swirling mass of air.\n\nAt the center of the spiral is the eye, a vertical tube of clear skies and calm winds; the more intense the storm, the smaller the eye.\n\nAlthough the main upwards flow of air is around the eye, the entire air mass is unstable. Spiraling rows of thunderstorms with relatively clear areas between them extend outwards for up to two thousand miles from the center, gradually diminishing in intensity.
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C'mon now, sometimes I wonder why people ask questions like this....sorry to be rude but I know you know what a hurricane is but here...\n\nhur·ri·cane    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (hûr-kn, hr-)\nn. \nA severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains. \nA wind with a speed greater than 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.
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Both are severe tropical systems that have wind speeds greater than 74 mph.\n\nThey are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. But once your go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean, they're called typhoons. And of course, the Australians, who have colorful names for just about everything, have their own term for hurricanes: "willy-willys."\n\nTyphoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and are better conditions for storm development. And they've been known to affect Seattle: Some of our strongest windstorms ever recorded were remnants of a typhoon in the western Pacific.
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A Gale is a wind speed from 28-55 knots or 32-62 mph. a tropical storm is a low pressure system which develops in tropical or subtropical waters that also have a circulation. and hurracane winds are clasify from 74 +.
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In my country it's called tropical cyclones. Firinga & Hollanda are the worst ones i have witnessed but before my birth there were three deadly ones: Carol, Claudette & Gervaise
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Since i live in florida, i love a good hurricane. With the wind blowing and the trees bending, i just love it.
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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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The storms comparable to hurricanes that originate in the Pacific ocean are called typhoons.  \n\nI am sorry to say that it looks like Japan might have another very severe typhoon season this year.  In one very recent year they had far more than normal.\n\nOn rare occasions hurricanes can cross from the Carribean into the Pacific and regain strength becoming typhoons and vice versa.\n\nI believe they are called typhoons also when they hit China and the Philippines.\n\nFor Australia and India they are called cyclones, and that is also the generic name for all three.\n\nTyphoons can be the most spectacularly strong of all cyclones, and certainly hold the record for size.  Not difficult to understand when you consider the size of the Pacific Ocean and the fact that it is subject to heating as are the Atlantic and the Carribean, Gulf of Mexico.\n\nYou can monitor the potential for these by using the AVISO urls (sea level anomalies) found at my weather blog:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nThere is comprehensive weather info there if you take the time to delve into the blog and the Blog Roll.