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
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