how do cyclones happen?

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Tropical cyclone is a general term for all circulating weather systems with sustained winds over tropical waters. Tropical cyclones form only over warm water that is between five and twenty decrees latitude. In order for a tropical cyclone to form, there must be a light wind, and the humidity must be high. First, an area of low pressure called a disturbance develops thunderstorms, that become organized and spiral inwards, forming the storm's center, called the "eye." The highest winds and the heaviest rain occur just outside the eye. There are three kinds of tropical storms: tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane (called a typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean, and a cyclone in the India Ocean). A tropical depression is an organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that have a certain wind circulation, the wind speed must be sustained at thirty eight miles per hour or less. Tropical storms and hurricanes have a higher air pressure than a tropical depression, and tropical depressions also do not create a storm surge. A lot of heavy rain usually accompanies a tropical depression. A tropical storm is a basically a hurricane, with less powerful winds. Like hurricanes, they have counter-clockwise winds, low pressure, and heavy rains. The only difference between a category 1 hurricane and the strongest tropical storm is one mile per hour. Tropical storms have winds of thirty nine to seventy three miles per hour, a category one hurricane has winds of seventy four miles per hour. There may be a little bit of storm surge flooding from a tropical storm in the area just to the right of where the center of the Storm hits shore, the flooding will be even worse if the storm has a fast forward speed. Month: Number of storms May 14 June 59 July 76 August 229 September 316 October 195 November 44 December 5 Above is a table of the number of tropical storms per month that have formed between 1886 and 1997. September is the peak month for tropical storms to form, very few form in May and December. Although tropical depressions aren't named, tropical storms and hurricanes are. Storms first started being officially named in 1953. In 1979, male names were added to the lists of names, up to that time, only female names were used. There are six lists of names, that we rotate through every six years. The first storm to form each year gets a name that starts with A, the second B, the third C, and so on through the alphabet. If a tropical storm or hurricane causes a lot of death or destruction, the name that it was given is taken off the lists and replaced with another.

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Question by bla
Submitted on 8/18/2003
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how do cyclones happen?

Answer by Bri guy
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Well Bla, cyclones or typhoons happen when cumulonimbus and nimbostratus clouds acquire moisture from the sea. The warm air rises and the cold air spins around and around at speeds causing the cyclone to whip objects around like toys.

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how do cyclones happen

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how do babies happen?

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How does a cyclone occur?

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how do cyclones accur and why?

Answer by Anonymous
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Ben you idiot!!! babies happen when a man and woman have sex. the guy produces sperm and the sperm finds its way to the ovaries and fertalises an egg then it takes 9 months for the baby to devolope and be born. ask your mother for more information.

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Answer by bens luva
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babies happen wen 2 ppl do it!

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it caused by warm weather and pollution and when people bure stuff and power plants is causes global warming witch brings warmer weather and causes cyclones

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Babies happen wen a mum and dad have sex and then the woman has lots of sperm and then she drops a baby

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Yo ben, babies happen first by having sex, then they are just born. Thats it

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That answer from bri guy or wateva his name iS is so cut and paste if we wanted a pointless answer we would ask the teachers