Cause And Effect Of Hurricanes

The word “hurricane” comes from the Caribbean god of storms, Hurican (Oxlade, 2006). A hurricane consists of: eye, eyewall, rail free area, spiral rain brand. The eyes is the most deadly part of the storm because there we will find the heaviest precipitation and strongest winds that reach around 121 miles per hour (Ahrens, 2013). Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last fifty years than any other natural cataclysm (Emanuel, 2005). Not all storms turn into hurricanes and not all hurricanes hit land. A combination of winds, storm surge, and rain can cause great damage to building, power lines, roads, and automobiles up to millions of dollars in damage. Hurricanes may cause many change sot the natural environment along the coast including: sand eroded from some coastal areas and deposited in others, the waves from storm surge are able to carry large rocks and even boulders, many low-lying areas are flooded by storm surge, and strong winds and floods can thin or destroy forests (Gardiner, 2009). Hurricanes form through a simple process.
Hurricanes begin as tropical storms of the warm moist waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The beginning of a hurricane is a low-pressure area containing cloudiness and precipitation with no strong wings. Heavy rain can occur. There is a pressure drop in the center of the storm. Wind speed picks up and starts rotating in a patters, and heavy rainfall begins. Winds increase to speeds of thirty-nine to seventy-three miles per hour. The storm becomes more organized due to intensifying circulation around the center of the storm. A tropical storm is given a name once winds exceed thirty-nine miles per hour. A pronounced rotation develops around the center of the storm with winds of th...

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...nge is so small that you could not measure the change; for example, it is hard to distinguish between winds that are 200 kilometers per hour or those that are at 202 kilometers per hour (Bentley, 2006).
In figure two, the black line represents our current climate and the red line represents the warmed climate. The chart suggests that there will be a decrease in frequency of hurricanes by late twenty-first century. Based on meteorologist’s forecasts of advanced computer models, some models predict that there will be fewer tropical storms and hurricanes globally (Mclendon, 2012).
CONCLUSION
The theory of whether or not climate change affects hurricane activity is extremely important if it is proven to be true either way. If climate change causes hurricane activity to increase in size, power, and occurrences then, meteorologists would have to come up with a way to