How Do Hurricanes Work?

Hurricanes require two main ingredients: warm water and wind. As the wind blows over the ocean’s surface, the warm water evaporates and rises. As it rises, that water vapor cools, condenses back into water droplets, and forms clouds. The more warm water and wind there is, the longer the process can continue, feeding the system and allowing it to grow larger and larger until it officially becomes a hurricane.

It’s only once the hurricane makes landfall that it stops growing, but that is where the danger lies. Along the coast, hurricanes bring storm surge and extreme flooding. But hurricanes can move far inland, dumping many inches of rain and causing all sorts of wind damage before dying out completely.

Check out this video of Hurricane Katrina forming in 2005 to see these forces in action.

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To those of you in the path of Hurricane Harvey—Stay safe!