By:Ashleigh Richardson. Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic...

By:Ashleigh Richardson

• Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

1. Hurricane Iris was the ninth named tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of an active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Iris was one of four storms to form

• A hurricane is a huge storm.

• It can be 600 miles across and have speeds up to

• 75 to 200mph

• A hurricane watch is something where someone tells you on the news that there will be a hurricane with so many minutes or something like that.

• As the wind must be blowing in the same direction and at the same speed to force air upward from the ocean surface.

Hurricanes

Hurricanes only form over really warm ocean water of 80f or warmer.                                                                           

• Coriolis Force is needed to create the spin in the hurricane and it becomes to weak near the equator, so hurricanes can never form here.