It is kind of funny that that particular post keeps getting pushed to the bottom. Kind of a "friendly" reminder before anyone posts!

shut the **** up and stop bickering

I don't need to retreat further into defensive mode because I've deconstructed your argument.

*sighs*

I'm gonna reopen this. I think it's a good thread that only a select few ruined it. That and I want to post stuff about hurricane related stuff but not make a new thread. If this continues again with the stupid bickering, those responsible will be banned.

Anyway, Back then I was quite enthusiastic about meteorology (it still lingers a little today), my dad's best friend got me a book on meterology. I remembered I kept it all these years. I found it and I thumbed to the section involving "hurricanes" Something a little omminous caught my eye.





Yeah. The book © is 1992.

A quick science lesson on hurricanes.
A hurricane is essentially a giant heat engine. It is the Earth's way of dispersing heat from the tropics up into the more mid-latitudes. The main ingredient of a hurricane is the warm humid air characteristic of the tropics. It holds the energy needed to power the storm. This warm humid air is very light and rises quickly thus it creates a low pressure. Now, the surrounding higher pressure wants to fill the slight vaccuum so it will rush in towards the center. The Coriolis Effect of the Earth's rotation will cause the rushing air to give it the counterclockwise spiral characteristic seen in storms in the northern hemisphere. As the rushing air gets closer and closer to the center of circulation, it speeds up. Think of a figure skater doing a spin with arms out wide at first then as s/he brings them inward, s/he speeds up more rapidly. This is why winds at the eye wall are the fastest. In the eye itself, air is falling which suppresses cloud cover.

The real deadly part of a hurricane is the storm surge. Hurricanes have "bands" of varying pressure. At the eye, where the pressure is at its lowest, it will suck water high. At the same time, the higher pressure areas push the water downward. As the hurricane moves along, this "bubble" of water is dragged along with it. Out in the open depths, the water has means of escaping. But as the hurricane moves closer to shore, the water has no to flow out. So it piles high and higher. As the center moves onshore, it essentially drags a wall ofa water along with it.

And now you know a little about hurricanes.