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The people who bought homes there would never find out the truth, unless a hurricane came and blew off their roofs and knocked down their walls. Definition of hurricane Entry 2 of 2. Synonyms for hurricane Synonyms: Noun ado , alarums and excursions , ballyhoo , blather , bluster , bobbery , bother , bustle , clatter , clutter [ chiefly dialect ], coil , commotion , corroboree [ Australian ], disturbance , do [ chiefly dialect ], foofaraw , fun , furor , furore , fuss , helter-skelter , hoo-ha also hoo-hah , hoopla , hubble-bubble , hubbub , hullabaloo , hurly , hurly-burly , hurry , hurry-scurry or hurry-skurry , kerfuffle [ chiefly British ], moil , pandemonium , pother , row , ruckus , ruction , rumpus , shindy , splore [ Scottish ], squall , stew , stir , storm , to-do , tumult , turmoil , uproar , welter , whirl , williwaw , zoo Visit the Thesaurus for More.
A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure weather system that has organized thunderstorms but no fronts a boundary separating two air masses of different densities. Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 39 miles per hour mph are called tropical depressions.
Those with maximum sustained winds of 39 mph or higher are called tropical storms. When a storm's maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph, it is called a hurricane. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating, or category, based on a hurricane's maximum sustained winds. The higher the category, the greater the hurricane's potential for property damage.
The different terms hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones all refer to tropical storms. They are named differently depending on the region they occur in.
Tropical storms are referred to as cyclones in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. A hurricane is a storm system rotating around an area of low pressure which produces strong winds and heavy rain. Technically the system is called a tropical storm if wind speeds are between 34 and 63 knots and it is only classified as a hurricane in the wind speed exceeds 63 knots.
A hurricane is on average miles wide and 10 miles high and moves forward like an enormous spinning top at a typical speed of 17 knots. The following five factors are generally required for a hurricane to develop:. At the centre of the hurricane is an area of sinking air, called the eye of the storm or inner core.
Weather in the eye is normally calm and cloud-free. The eye is circular and can range from 2 to miles in diameter. The North Atlantic hurricane season officially starts on 1st June and runs until the end of November, peaking sharply from late-August and throughout September.
On average, there are 8 to 10 hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin per year. Storms that reach tropical storm strength are named to provide a unique identifier when issuing forecasts and warnings. There have been six lists of names in use since The lists are in alphabetical order and alternate between male and female. The lists are recycled after six years, although the names of notable hurricanes are retired by the NHC on request. All letters of the alphabet are used except Q, U, X, Y, and Z and if the names on a list are all used, storms are then named after the letters of the Greek alphabet Alpha, Beta ….
The season was the most active season in recorded history, with 28 storms.
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