Formation
This is the first “stage” of a hurricane, before it becomes a tropical storm.
What is a tropical depression?
The centre of a hurricane, usually with calm weather.
What is the eye?
Many people caught in hurricanes suffer from this, due to a lack of food.
What is malnutrition?
This phenomenon is the abnormal rise in seawater level during a storm, usually caused by the storm's winds pushing water onshore. This causes most of the damage to oceanfront properties during a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
The category of hurricanes with the strongest winds.
What is Category 5?
Hurricanes form between these two tropics.
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
A ring of towering thunderstorms where the highest wind speeds and most severe weather occurs within a hurricane.
What is the eyewall?
This is the most common injury/illness during/after a hurricane.
What is a water-borne infection?
This tourism-dependent country was hit hard by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
What is the Bahamas?
The thunderstorms that hurricanes carry often cause this natural disaster.
What are tornadoes?
This is what gives hurricanes their rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
These spiral towards the eyewall, and are in the outer region of a hurricane.
What are rain bands?
Hurricane survivors often suffer from these mental issues.
What are/is PTSD, depression disorders, anxiety disorders?
This was the costliest hurricane to ever hit the USA, causing approximately 165 billion dollars in damages in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This phenomenon forms because of the interaction between waves and the ocean bottom. If you are pulled in by one, you are advised to swim parallel to the shore to escape.
What is a rip current?
This system forming is what causes wind to spiral inward.
What is a low-pressure system?
The way hurricanes rotate in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is counterclockwise?
This was the deadliest hurricane to hit Canada, killing 8 people in 2003.
What is Hurricane Juan?
The usual result when lower income families are hit by hurricanes.
What is poverty?
When there is heavy flooding and pipes burst during hurricanes, this is often a result in the water.
What is water contamination?
The minimum distance a hurricane can form from the equator.
What is 480km?
The section of the eyewall that usually causes the most damage in the northern hemisphere.
What is the right-front quadrant?
The chances of this happening to you during a hurricane is 1 in 62,288.
What is death?
The cost of the destruction caused by hurricanes in the Atlantic from 2004 - 2005.
What is $150 billion?
Storm surge flooding, when combined with normal tides, can increase the mean water level to this height.
What is 15 ft?