I live in the Caribbean so I have plenty of experience of hurricanes but have never understood how clouds begin to rotate and turn into hurricanes and why storms in northern latitudes not rotate into hurricanes but can have very strong winds and rain. It has been explained to me before, but not like I’m 5, so I never quite got it. Thanks for any answers.
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Hurricanes, typhoons and severe tropical cyclones form over warm ocean water, the warmer the air above the ocean the faster new air is sucked into the storm and the larger it grows and the faster the winds. With global warming increasing the temperature of the oceans more hurricanes are likely to develop in the future. https://youtu.be/VWCVohW5mD8
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