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How Do Hurricanes Form

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A hurricane is formed when the moisture from a tropical storm rises and evaporates until enormous amounts of heated air are twisted high in the atmosphere. These start to circle and gather strength as the move over the warm waters. You can ...
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A hurricane forms in the tropics area. if the water is really hot, then it starts to pick up wind speed and move across the ocean.
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Hurricanes/Tropical Cyclones several favorable environmental conditions that must be in place before a tropical cyclone can form. They are: Warm ocean waters (at least 80°F / 27°C) throughout a depth of about 150 ft. (46 m). An atmosphere w...
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Scientists don't know exactly why or how a hurricane forms. But they do know that two main ingredients are needed.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/wh...
No. Tropical cyclones are like giant engines that use warm, moist air as fuel. That is why they form only over warm ocean waters near the equator. The warm, moist air over the ocean rises upward from near the surface. Because this air moves...
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Hurricane Katrina formed in this way over the south-eastern Bahamas on 23 August 2005
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9985
It is unlikely that two hurricanes would merge. Hurricanes are come into existence becasue of the energy in the warm air above the warm sea. Hurricanes essentially use up that energy, so here a hurricane has been there is no enegy left for ...
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In our present day climate, hurricanes are believed to occur only through a "finite amplitude instability," which is to say that a precursor disturbance (such as an easterly wave) of sufficient strength is required for tropical cy...
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They can only form over warm water but they can move around.
http://www.narragansett.k12.ri.us/NES/weather/Hurricane...