An overview
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An overview
A hurricane is a cyclonic wind, moving at a speed of 74 miles per hour or more. Its center, or eye, with the diameter of from 7 to 20 miles, is a spiral of low pressure, a place of calm, where the winds blow lazily and the skies are clear. Around this core, the air moves at terrifying speeds of up to 200 miles an hour.
Heavy rains accompany the winds. The power of a hurricane is sobering. Taking in and converting to energy a quarter of a million tons of water every second, the average hurricane generates a force equal to 500,000 atom bombs. A recorded hurricane in Puerto Rico dumped 2 1/2 billion tons of water in about three hours which was only a fraction to its total outpouring.
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