- Hurricanes are actually tropical typhoons but it depends on their location and strength which determines what they are called. Other names would be tropical storms, cyclonic storms, tropical depression or a cyclone.
- All Hurricanes are created by an area of low atmospheric pressure.
- Within every Hurricane is an eye, which is an area of calmness.
- The eye can vary in size from only 3 kilometers to 370 kilometers depending on the size of the Hurricane.
- The Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale measures the strength of the hurricane.
- Hurricanes are classified into 5 different catogories. These are measured according to the strength of the hurricane.
- After a hurricane has taken place it leaves lots of damage in its path. The government may have to spend millions to repair the damage that the hurricane will have caused.
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