Hurricanes

Hurricanes are one of the most severe types of weather. Hurricanes are intense tropical storms with very strong winds. The same storms in the Pacific Ocean are called typhoons. Hurricanes form over warm waters, where surface winds converge and the winds aloft are weak. They get energy from the warm waters and from the latent heat released as water vapor condense into clouds. Hurricanes grow stronger as long as the air aloft moves outward, away from the storm center quicker than the air at the surface, as it moves toward the center. A hurricane will dissipate rapidly when it moves over colder water or a large land mass.