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What is the difference between tropical depression and a typhoon?
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 mph. A tropical depression is a tropical cyclone with winds less than 39 mph. Above that limit it is considered a tropical storm. A tropical depression is of much lower intensity and is generally not as well organized as a hurricane.
What happens to a tropical depression in a hurricane?
A tropical depression is a weak tropical cyclone wind sustained winds of less than 39 miles per hour. As the depression is fueled by moisture from warm ocean water it gains strength and becomes more organized. When wind speeds reach 39 mph it becomes a tropical storm. When they reach 74 mph it becomes a hurricane.
What is the highest number of active hurricanes in the Atlantic at one time?
4 hurricanes. This has happened twice. There was one occasion when there were 5 tropical cyclones (tropical depression, tropical storm, or hurricane), but no more than 2 were hurricanes at any given time.
What are hurricanes and where do they form?
Hurricanes are powerful swirling storms found in tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean (called tropical cyclones in Asia or typhoons in Oceania ) . Hurricanes usually begin over tropical parts of the world's oceans where the temperature is more than 27 degree Celsius.
What happens as the winds in a hurricane grow stronger?
When the temperature of the water under a hurricane heats up it adds much more power to the wind velocity, this makes for a much stronger and fiercer storm.
A tropical depression can become more powerful by?
A tropical depression can become more powerful by gaining energy from the moisture that evaporates from warm water, and be developing a more well-defined circulation.
How does a tropical depression differ from a tropical distubance?
A tropical depression is more organized than a tropical disturbance. It has a closed circulation and a definite center of rotation, which a disturbance lacks.
What is the difference between tropical depression and a typhoon?
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 mph. A tropical depression is a tropical cyclone with winds less than 39 mph. Above that limit it is considered a tropical storm. A tropical depression is of much lower intensity and is generally not as well organized as a hurricane.
What widespread intense low pressure area originating in the tropics to produce a storm with heavy rains and high winds of 75 mph or more?
hurricane
How did the Aztec Empire grow and become more powerful?
how did aztec empire grow and become powerful
What happens to a tropical depression in a hurricane?
A tropical depression is a weak tropical cyclone wind sustained winds of less than 39 miles per hour. As the depression is fueled by moisture from warm ocean water it gains strength and becomes more organized. When wind speeds reach 39 mph it becomes a tropical storm. When they reach 74 mph it becomes a hurricane.
Which do scientists think would lead to more powerful hurricanes?
Warmer tropical oceans
What did the British do to become more and more powerful in India?
you answer it
Why the Iroquois formed the Iroquois confederacy to become more powerful?
because Iroquois were powerful
How did depression impact Japan?
Answer this question… Japan's military leaders became much more politically powerful.
What happens if hemophilia b gets diagnosed as hemophilia a?
it will become more superstitious or it will become powerful.
What events caused Roosevelt to become more of an internationalist?
The Great Depression was the major event that caused President Roosevelt to become more of an internationalist.
