Hurricane Types
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Hurricanes have four stages:

Tropical disturbance: rain clouds (Moist air rises and becomes cooler)
Tropical depression: thunderstorms (low pressure--winds with circular patterns
Tropical Storm: 38 miles an hour wind (storm clouds--rough seas)
Hurricane: more than 74 miles per hour wind and heavy rain (a developed eye and eye wall)

Different names for different parts of the world:
Hurricanes
- over the North Altantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Northeast Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico
Typhoons- over Northwest Pacific Ocean
Tropical cyclones-near Australia and the Indian Ocean

Volcano
Hurricane
Earthquake
Tornado

 

 

Air movement of a hurricane


 

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale