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Hurricanes And Tornadoes Similarities
"Crack!" Down goes an immense tree. Hurricanes and Tornadoes are lethal catastrophes that are strong enough to destroy anything in their paths. They have similarities but have differences as well.

To start off, Hurricanes and Tornadoes are similar because they scaled on a one to five scale. Also, wind, rain, and hail are crucial fragments of these fatal natural disasters. Likewise, they both are cyclonic, and they contain harmful rotating winds. Similarly, they both spin counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and spin clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Finally, they both have a tremendous hole in the middle, and the storms give you valuable time to prepare. Those are the similarities between Hurricanes and Tornadoes.

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