What is a hurricane and what causes it?

Question

What is a hurricane and what causes it?

Answer 1

how the **** do you not know these things?!

i got a 1 as my first semester grade in geography last year and even i know this ****!

Answer 2

a huricane is a large storm with  strong winds more thatn 75mph

warm water feeds it they ocur in low presure when the water heats and geos up then evaporates it geos up like a heat steam engine the rotation in earth causes it to spin they are found in summer and fall

Answer 3

I'm a meteorology major who really should be asleep right now. Anyway, here's the straightforward answer:

1) The first person gave the definition of a hurricane. Its essentially a tropical cyclone (low pressure system, one closed isobar) with sustained winds exceeding 74 mph. The minimum ocean surface temperature to sustain hurricane development is 80F. Hurricanes refer to storms generated in the Atlantic.

2) A hurricane forms in the following way: A tropical wave develops (don't worry about why, its complicated). It then becomes a tropical disturbance, essentially a thunderstorm. If it begins to rotate (sufficient corriolis) and shear is low, it can become a tropical storm. These typically strengthen over warm water but again, only if shear aloft is tolerably low. Then voila, a hurricane.

Finally, crazy people like me get really excited and want to fly planes into them.

Answer 4

All it is a low pressure area.  It is only a matter of degree.  If an area of low pressure is large enough and the pressure is low enough and the surrounding air pressure is high enough and the wind velocity is great enough, we call it a hurricane.  But to nature it is just another low pressure area.

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