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GLOBAL CLIMATE

Tropical storms, including hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons, originate in the tropics and are characterized by high winds and heavy rain. They form over warm ocean waters and are fueled by the sun’s energy, leading to powerful disturbances in the atmosphere. As warm, moist air rises, it creates a vacuum that draws in cooler air, intensifying the storm. These storms can travel vast distances, significantly impacting regions beyond their origin. Learn how these swirling wonders of nature affect our weather and climate.

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GLOBAL CLIMATE

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  1. GLOBAL CLIMATE POWERFUL STORMS

  2. POWERFUL STORM • Tropical storms : a storm originating in the tropics and marked by high winds and often heavy rain, such as hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons. • The atmosphere is in continual motion, with swirling masses of air that create our weather. This movement of air masses happens for two reasons - • 1 – the earth is spinning in its daily rotation • 2 – the earths surface is unevenly heated

  3. POWERFUL STORMS

  4. TROPICAL STORMS • From the map, you can see that hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons all begin in oceans on each side of the equator. • From there, they sweep toward the mid-latitudes, sometimes reaching as far as Nova Scotia. • These tropical storms originate from warm ocean waters. • “think of them as swirling mountains of warm, moist air heated by the sun’.

  5. TROPICAL STORMS • As a mound of warm air rises from the ocean surface, cooler air blows into the base of the air mass. A tropical disturbance is set up. • As the new air is heated and rises, the tropical disturbance grows larger and spins faster. • It is upgraded to hurricane status. • The suns energy is responsible for tropical storms. North America could be powered for half a year on the energy of one hurricane season!

  6. TROPICAL DISTURBANCE

  7. HURRICANE

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