atmospheric hazards

• Things needed for tropical storms to form?

  • Sea surface temperature above 27 degrees
  • cluster of thunderstorms
  • earth's rotation
  • light wind shear
• Tropical storms are found in areas of low latitude between 5 and 30 degrees north and south of the equator
• low wind shear is need for the formation of a tropical storm because when the wind is too strong it breaks the storm apart
• tropical storms need to form above the ocean because it needs moisture
• The coriolis effect make the warm rising air bend and spin so hurricanes in the northern hemisphere spins in an anticlockwise direction and cyclones in the southern hemisphere spins in a clockwise direction
• Tropical storms travel from the East to the West
• • Tropical storms bring with them high winds, rain and storm surges.