Hurricanes

Hi, this time we are having a topic called Hurricanes. They are caused by the nature; they can be called wild weathers. Hurricanes cause a lot of damage in the coasts of some places like U.S and in the pacific where they are called typhoons. Hurricanes can cause a lot of damage to people or places, so you need to be very careful if you are near any of them. Hurricanes Hurricanes are big masses of spinning winds that start over the sea. Hurricanes bring heavy rains, lightings, and very hard winds that create a lot of destruction. Hurricanes are composed by layers.

The feeder bands are the outer arms that spin very fast and the ones that cause more destruction. These bands make the storm look like a big spinning wheel. Each arm of the hurricane are giant storm clouds, this is from where the heavy rains, lightning, winds come from.

After the feeder band, comes the hurricane's eye wall. It is dark inside a hurricane's eye. Here is where the winds spin faster. All the very dense outer clouds cover the light, making the eye wall, a big dark hole. Inside in a hurricane's eye wall is where the fastest winds are created, they can spin at speeds of about 180 miles per hour, that is about 290 km/h, that is fastest than most of the cars. When planes are catch by a hurricane, or the storm tracker planes, they need to be very careful, the outer winds are very bad, but when an airplane enters the eye wall of the hurricane, it needs to be an expert pilot to handle well the plain or the plain can be tossed out of the eye, making it crash.

After the eye wall comes the last part of a hurricane, it is located in the middle, it is the hurricanes eye. Here, the winds of the hurricane are very calm.

Hurricanes create storm surges. A storm surge is when the hurricane makes a sudden rise of the sea level, bringing bigger waves that flood all the coasts. Hurricane Hugo's storm surge raised the water level 20 feet, that is about 10 meters, imaging that, the water level rising 10 meters; the storm surge make cars role off, boats crash ashore, trees flying out; a disaster. Hurricane Hugo killed about 504 people and much more where injured.

Hurricane Facts

• Hurricanes can last 10 days before they run out their energy.
• Hurricanes die out fast in cold water.
• Hurricanes never form on the equator and never cross it.
• They are slow, on water, they travel 15 miles per hour, not fast.

Some hurricane safety tips could be to always that you hear a hurricane is coming, be prepared, have food stored, blankets, cloth, and other types of supplies in case you cant go out. Stay togetehr with your family and if the autorities ask you to evacuate the area, evacuate is, it is for your safety, not thems.

So to conclude, remember: hurricanes are strong spinning winds created far at ocean. If winds reach the 74 miles per hour, or 120 km/h, they are called hurricanes. When they hit land, they slowdown, their power source is the ocean, so usually when hurricane hits main land they stop.