Hurricanes

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air swirls in over the sea surface, it soaks up more and more
water vapour. At the storm center, this new supply of water vapor gets
pulled into the thunderhead updrafts, releasing still more energy as the
water vapor condenses. This makes the updrafts rise faster, pulling in even
larger amounts of air and water vapor from the storm's edges. And as the
updrafts speed up, air swirls faster and faster around the storm center.
The storm clouds, moving with the swirling air, form a coil.

In a few days the hurricane will have grown greatly in size and power.
The swirling shape of the winds of the hurricane is shaped like a dough-nut.
At the center of this giant "dough-nut" is a cloudless, hole usually having
a radius of 10 miles. Through it, the blue waters of the ocean can be seen.
The hurricane's wind speed near the center of the hurricane ranges from 75
miles to 150 miles per hour.

The winds of a forming hurricane tend to pull away from the center as
the wind speed ...

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