Water in tropical storms/hurricanes?

Question

We have a tropical storm over us. It rained a LOT. Inches and inches of rain. Where does all the water come from? Normal rainstorms do not rain THAT MUCH.

Answer 1

Tropical storms begin with intense convection of water  over warm seas.These convections develop on a large scale leading to the formation of tropical storms.In fact,the enegy of the storm is derived from the latent heat of condensation of the ascending moist air.

In short,water picked from the sea is the main source of energy for the storms and this water subsequently is responsible for the formation of massive clouds leading to torrential rain.

Answer 2

When it rains for days on end the cause is typically a stalled ( or extremely slow moving) low pressure system. While the clouds above you dump their moisture new clouds laden with water move over you and dump their water. This process goes on and on until the rotating low pressure system mores away from you. The water itself is comming from a very large body of water.

Watch the radar of a hurricane and you will see this action occuring

Answer 3

the rain builds up in the clouds

Answer 4

Normal rain storms are not as large as a tropical storm's cloud mass.

Normal rain storms pick up their moisture over land, tropical storms pick up their moisture over the ocean.