Hurricane Storms

Hurricane

Hurricane is a tropical storm accompanied by heavy winds and there can be no other word to describe it except "large". Wind in hurricane storm has a speed of no less than approximately 74 miles per hour. Hurricane storms are usually accompanied by heavy rainfall over large areas and they have the potential to raise tornadoes, which are an aggravated condition of flooding seas due to heavy rainfall, which wreak further havoc. People all over the world, know and suffer due to hurricane storms though they have different names for it. Some call it willy-willies and some call it typhoons and baqulros. There are references in Captain Fernando de Oviedo’s book about "huracan" which was devil’s way of terrifying the people.

How are hurricane storms created?

Hurricanes are created in areas of low atmospheric pressure and in locations like the Africa and the Atlantic where these hurricanes grow and become intense in the moisture rich air above the warm ocean. The warmth and the moisture in the late summer or early fall stimulates and triggers the pre-storm condition and ultimately leads to thunderstorms. It happens so that air from very direction moves towards these areas of low atmospheric pressure and take s bend towards the right due to the influence of Coriolis effect, which results to the rotation of converging wind fields. When these wind fields that are hot masses of moisture-laden air meet, they rise up to form a low-pressure area and the resultant activities are described by the meteorologists as tropical depressions and disturbances.

Most of these disturbances do not result in hurricanes as it takes the right combination of many atmospheric events to happen at the right time and right extent to lead to a hurricane. A hurricane can be created when the air that is converging rises in an area of strong winds and there is certain amount of convection that is required and has to be created by the upper atmospheric wind.

Anatomy of a Hurricane Storm

The hurricane storm has an inner core, which is known as the eye of the storm and it is a calm area where the pressure of the wind is least and around the eye of the hurricane storm there is eye wall, which is the area of heavy rainfall and acts as the origin of winds. The eye wall is a ring of clouds that surrounds the eyeball. The periphery of the eye wall consists of bands of heavy rainfall that have a tendency to swirl towards center of the storm and are often called spiral rain bands.

Kinds of Hurricane storms

There are various categories of Hurricane storms which are as follows:

• Minimal
• Moderate
• Extensive
• Extreme
• Catastrophic

Hurricane storms cause severe and several damages and as these storms are the extremes in nature, it influences and adversely effects life and property. It is not necessary that one must evacuate as soon there is warning but then the storm should be observed and if the speed increases then it is always better to move out of the place. If the sky becomes clear, that does not mean that the hurricane has moved away. it just means that the eye of the hurricane has shifted and the winds would now blow with an increased speed.