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Hurricanes are one of the most deadliest storms on Earth and are only called hurricanes when they from over by the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific Ocean.Hurricanes also from near the equator by warm oceans. First the hurricane needs the ocean's temperature to rise to about eighty degrees from about fifty feet to one hundred sixty five feet below surface (Underwater). Another important key a hurricane needs to form is winds mainly coming from the west (Westward), as this happens the water evaporates due to the wind and the heat pulling up then cools down when high enough and transforms into giant water droplets creating the ginormous cumulonimbus clouds. After the clouds begin to circle around caused by the wind and lest the water go down the eye/hole in the …show more content…
As the wind speed increases rapidly the winds circle around the eye (Center of the storm). Depending on what side of the hemisphere you live on the wind spins in different directions, if you live on the Northern hemisphere the winds go counter clockwise, the opposite goes for people that live on the Southern hemisphere the winds go clockwise. When the winds reached to about seventy four miles per hour this is where the terror comes in. The center is about five to thirty miles wide and about fifty thousand feet high. Along with the low air pressure making huge bodies of water and with the winds blowing from East to West (Trade winds). When it hits land everything lowers do to no energy but the water starts to rise inland quite fast. I also found out that eighty eight percent of U.S deaths are caused by hurricanes, let’s do everything we can to decrease the

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