Hurricane

• • Weather that is

  weather

  • It puts people & animals in danger or causes huge damage to

  buildings
• USA/Caribbean:called hurricanes

  • Australia/southeast Asia:

  cyclones

  • Japan: typhoons
• Hurricanes need to see 3 things form

  • Warm water et er 26°C

  -Moist air

  -Wind speeds over 120 km/hr
• How is a hurricane formed

  1. They form over warm ocean water near the equator

  2. When warm moist air rises upwards, it is replaced by new air

  3. This new air then becomes warm and rises

  4. This cycle continues

  5. The warm air rises and cools and condenses to form clouds

  6. The movement of the air creates wind

  7. A column of low pressure is formed and the wind blows around it
• A column of low pressure is formed and the wind blows around it
• Due to the spin of the Earth, this air and the clouds spin faster and

  faster

  9. The eye of the storm develops in the centre and it is calm

  10. Hurricanes occur mainly at sea and can be devastating when they

  travel inland
• Hurricane Irma 2017- category 5 wind speed 295kph

  Impacts of Hurricane Irma

  Barbuda

  • JUvo of buildinas in the is and of Barbuda

  Were.

  St Martin

  destroyed or partially destroved.

  • 60% of the population was left homeless .

  60% athe islands homes were destroved

  1.5 million peonle were Ipit without nower

  : It had a huge impact on tourism in an area that

  receives over a million tourists each year.

  Florida.

  6 million people were ordered to evacuate.