Poll of the Day > What even is a hurricane?

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I always thought it was a tornado on the water, like in Wind Waker when that frog guy chases you every so often until you hit him with an arrow, but I guess it's not actually that. So what IS a hurricane?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

A tropical cyclone, or hurricane, is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain or squalls. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different names, including hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms".

A miserable little pile of secrets.

WastelandCowboy posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

A tropical cyclone, or hurricane, is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain or squalls. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different names, including hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms".

So it's kind of like a tornado but it's 100+ times bigger and it's the clouds in the system collecting and rapidly moving in a circle with no tornado "spout"?

@ChronxDaHemphog
you have the worst username ever

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone#/media/File:Hurricane-en.svg
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Something like life, according to the residents of Duckberg.
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It's a Tornado that's about 1000x times bigger and travels over the water. Otherwise known as a typhoon.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

A tropical cyclone, or hurricane, is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain or squalls. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different names, including hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones" or "severe cyclonic storms".

If you were curious, what you were thinking of is a Waterspout.

Can there ever be a hypothetical F6?
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Tornadoes suck,
Hurricanes blow.
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captpackrat posted...

Tornadoes suck,
Hurricanes rock.

Fix'd.

*Trump used Nuclear Ordnance*
*It was super-effective!*

DirtBasedSoap posted...

@ChronxDaHemphog
you have the worst username ever

Its a reference to sonic the hedgehog
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Someone who plays ice hockey professionally in North Carolina.
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Here I am

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OniRonin posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

@ChronxDaHemphog
you have the worst username ever

Its a reference to sonic the hedgehog

No fuckin shit

Science is fake news. It's probably just God.
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Lokarin posted...

Can there ever be a hypothetical F6?

The weather people can always include that category for Dorian, if not improve categories 1-5. That being said, it would be a first in the annuals of hurricane history.

Lokarin posted...

Can there ever be a hypothetical F6?

The Saffir-Simpson Scale was designed to measure the potential damage to man-made structures. Category 5 is "Extremely catastrophic damage", so there's not really any need for a higher category since pretty much everything has already been destroyed.
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