Summer 2005
The Life of a Hurricane
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Backdoor: The Life of a Hurricane The birth and death of summer's great storms Think of the atmosphere as a dynamic mass of air with pockets at different pressures and rivers of air currents holding different amounts of moisture. Wind is air movement between areas of two different atmospheric pressures, flowing from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. As water temperatures in the Atlantic warm, minor tropical disturbances pressure imbalances that create flurries of wind and rain form, but with very little organization. Such disturbances of slightly higher intensity, known as tropical waves a low-pressure
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