Friday, June 18, 2010

Weather Pin #5: Explain the differences between tornadoes and hurricanes.

One of things about tornados is that they can happen almost anywhere. And hurricanes, they mostly happen in tropical areas like Hawaii, Mexico and Australia. Like the hurricane that's still forming (and has been forming for 2 weeks now) called Hurricane Alex. Personally, I think that's going to be one of the biggest because it's been forming for two weeks now. Tornado's don't happen on water, but hurricanes take up a whole lot of water. Plus you need to be either the ocean or the sea in order to have a hurricane but tornados can happen anywhere. The place with the fewest tornado's is Atlanta, which I learned from the show "Tornados" which is on channel 62, which is the Weather Channel. By the way, they said that in some places, they said it is going to be +10 (extremely hot), so gather up all of your sunscreen and swimsuits and go to the beach. But watch out for tornados because it's tornado and hurricane season.

Tornado's and hurricanes both start out as a simple cloud, but when hot and cold air meet, they form a giant vortex that will pick up anything in it's path and throw up. And did you know that a simple F1 vortex can jump a mile?? And that's the weakest kind of vortex.

Hurricane

F4 Tornado

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