Tropical Cyclone's are some of nature's most powerful and destructive phenomena! They have been recorded at 200 miles an hour! To form a Tropical Cyclone, the temperature needs to be at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The most common place for a Tropical Cyclone to form is near the equator, and there needs to be a maximum wind speed of at least 33 miles per hour. To track or measure Tropical Cyclones, people called "Hurricane Hunters" fly through storms to get the most accurate data, then Meteorologists interpret this data and report it to news outlets. Tropical Cyclones have heavy rain, strong wind, "large storm surges at landfall," and tornadoes. In a Tropical Cyclone, there is 59% fresh water flooding, 12% wind, 11% offshore, 4% tornado, and 3% surge.
Nearly 2 million people have died globally due to Tropical Cyclones. The effects might be, disease left behind, clean up and rescue efforts, and transportation or communication may get destroyed. If you are in a Tropical Cyclone, the best place you can possibly go is as far underground as you can. You can also go higher than the cyclone itself, but that's not likely since you never know when a cyclone will happen and you won't have enough time to get that high up. The worst place you can be is in the eye of a Tropical Cyclone. A cyclone eye is twice as bad as a hurricane eye. It can rip many houses at a time up and destroy them easily.
You would be surprised on how many times forecasters find a cyclone, a hurricane, or a tornado that will disappear. Tropical Cyclones occur most frequently off of the northwest coast of Western Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, or in the Coral Sea. As soon as a Tropical Cyclone is located and tracked, forecasters immediately have to figure out the strength of the cyclone. They occur in the summer during wet season and will usually come between November and April, with the greatest possibility of being between December and February. Tropical Cyclones obtain their energy by evaporating water into the cyclone, this energy is stored within the water vapor contained in moist air, then is released by condensation.
They form when a source of warm, moist air from Tropical Oceans at temperatures of 27 degrees Celsius that have winds near the ocean surface, blowing from different directions which causes air to rise and storm clouds to form. Then, when the air gets to a high level in the sky, the equator will provide spin or twist.
A Tropical Cyclone hit Myanmar and caused great damage. Till this day, people are still day, people are having trouble finding jobs and are stuck in poverty. The Tropical Cyclone left 138,000 people dead or missing and 800,000 people homeless. The damage cost over 300,000 million dollars. In Myanmar, over 10,000 people are living in temporary, substandard shelters which will not be able to withstand another storm.
Tropical Cyclones can cause millions of dollars of damage and can be extremely dangerous. Although they don't happen here, Tropical Cyclones happen commonly near the equator. Myanmar to this day is still struggling to repair the damage that the Tropical Cyclone brought.
After a Tropical Cyclone hit Myanmar and tore it apart, people are still not finding jobs and are stuck in poverty. The Tropical Cyclone left 138,000 people dead or missing and 800,000 people homeless. The damage cost over 300,000 million dollars. In Myanmar, over 10,000 people are living in temporary, substandard shelters which will not be able to withstand another storm.