They don’t go on forever otherwise the earth would be covered in them right?!
In: Planetary Science
Tropical cyclones (also called hurricanes in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, typhoons in the western pacific, or cyclones in the Indian Ocean) form from a combination of warm ocean water and strong winds. Without the warm ocean water providing more energy it will eventually weaken and break apart. Moving over colder water or over land basically does that.
Unfortunately for the victims of tropical cyclones the energy that has been pumped into the storm has to go somewhere and that somewhere is in the destructive winds and rain of the storm.
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