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HURRICANE FACTS
Today, the list includes English, Spanish and French names because these languages are most commonly used by the countries in the Atlantic Basin. There are six lists of names. Each list is used in rotation every six years.
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Since all of the traditional names had been used for 2005, the last six named storms were called “Alpha,” “Beta,” “Gamma,” “Delta,” “Epsilon,” and “Zeta,” the first six letters of the Greek alphabet.
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A huge hurricane can release energy equivalent to 10 atomic bombs per second.
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Hurricanes also produce mild tornadoes, which can last up to a few minutes.
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Hurricanes that move slowly are likely to produce more rains causing more damage by flooding than fast-moving hurricanes.
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Hurricane Floyd, which was barely a category I hurricane, has destroyed 19 million trees and has caused damage of more than a billion dollars.
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Many people die in hurricanes because of the rising seawater that enters the mainland, instantly killing people.
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The year 2005 saw the most hurricanes ever to form in a single Atlantic season, with 15.
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The least number of tropical storms happened in 1983
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The first person to give names to hurricanes was a weather forecaster from Australia named C. Wragge in the 1900s.
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Florida is hit by at least 40% of the hurricanes that occur in America.
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Hurricanes are differentiated from tropical storms by their wind speeds. Tropical storms carry winds that travel 35-50 miles per hour. Hurricane’s wind speeds are double and travel for at least 74 miles per hour.
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The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale defines hurricane strength by categories. Hurricanes are categorized into 5 types, depending upon their wind speed and their capacity to cause damage. The wind speed of the 5 categories is as follows.
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A Category 1 storm is the weakest hurricane with winds having speeds between 74-95 mph; a Category 5 hurricane is the strongest with winds greater than 155 mph.
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The deadliest hurricane is the category 4 hurricane that occurred in Texas and Galveston in the year 1990. 8000 people were found dead by the 15-foot waves, which carried winds traveling for 130 miles per hour.
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It is believed that hurricanes have killed approximately 1.9 million people over the past 200 years.
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The third ingredient is that of a saturated lapse rate gradient near the center of rotation of the storm. A saturated lapse rate ensures latent heat will be released at a maximum rate. Hurricanes are warm-core storms. The heat hurricanes generate is from the condensation of water vapor as it convectively rises around the eyewall. The lapse rate must be unstable around the eyewall to insure rising parcels of air will continue to rise and condense water vapor.
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The fourth and one of the most important ingredients is that of low vertical wind shear, especially in the upper level of the atmosphere. Wind shear is a change in wind speed with height. Strong upper-level winds destroy the storm's structure by displacing the warm temperatures above the eye and limiting the vertical accent of air parcels. Hurricanes will not form when the upper-level winds are too strong.
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Hurricanes mostly occur from June to November when seas are the warmest and most humid, forming conducive weather for the hurricanes to build up.
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In the Atlantic Ocean, hurricanes begin from 1st June, and in the Pacific, they start in mid-May. Both end together towards the end of November.
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An average hurricane season based on data from 1968 to 2003 brings 10.6 tropical storms. Six of those become hurricanes and two become major hurricanes, meaning category 3 or greater.
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Planet Jupiter has a hurricane that appears as a red dot in it, spinning since 300 years. This hurricane is bigger than the earth itself.
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Hurricanes are large enough to carry winds that travel for 160 miles per hour.
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Stronger hurricanes can reach 40,000 to 50,000 feet up into the sky.
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Hurricanes need Coriolis Force to form, which is very weak at the Equator, and this is the reason that they cannot form near the Equator.
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The Southern Hemisphere typically experiences about half the number of hurricanes as the Northern Hemisphere each year.
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A typical hurricane needs (a) light upper-level winds, (b) warm water (at-least 80º F) and (c) pre-existing conditions with thunderstorms to form.
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Cape Verde-type hurricanes are those Atlantic basin tropical cyclones that develop into tropical storms fairly close (<1000km or so) to the Cape Verde Islands and then become hurricanes before reaching the Caribbean.
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Other names for a hurricane include cyclone, typhoon and tropical storm.
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While they are essentially the same thing, the different names usually indicate where the storm took place. Tropical storms that form in the Atlantic or Northeast Pacific (near the United States) are called hurricanes, those that form near in the Northwest Pacific (near Japan) are called typhoons and those that form in the South Pacific or Indian oceans are called cyclones.