Katie Sullivan's Hurricane Page

A hurricane meal	Hurricanes need warm water (above 80 degrees F) to grow and thrive.
What keeps little hurricanes awake at night	Wind shear, winds moving in different directions at different levels of the atmosphere, tears hurricanes apart and quickly kills or weakens them.
A hurricane in therapy
One of the other reasons why hurricanes hate wind shear
The little hurricane gets sick	Just as a high temperature indicates a sick human, unhealthy hurricanes have high air pressure
The Long Island Express Hurricane	The great New England hurricane of 1938 raced northward to strike the northeast U.S. at an incredible speed, surprising forecasters.
The latest hurricane dance craze	The Fujiwhara Effect occurs when two hurricanes get so close together they begin revolving around each other.
When the Fujiwhara Effect gets out of hand
The freak tropical storm which formed in the Southern Atlantic in 1991	C.D.O.=Central Dense Overcast, the thickest area of thunderstorms, around the center.
A hurricane identity crisis	Tropical cyclones are often renamed when they switch ocean basins
A hurricane nursery	Warm water below, high pressure above.
Tropical Depressions are sometimes called "baby hurricanes"	So... Baby #1 and Baby #2
Hurricane nightmares	"Florida was here a second ago..."
Why Project Stormfury failed	Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding.
Why the other hurricanes hate to have Felix over for a visit	In 1995, Hurricane Felix sat offshore of the Carolinas, stalled for days.
The highly erratic Hurricane Gordon	In 1994, Hurricane Gordon wandered drunkenly all over the Caribbean and Atlantic, looping in circles and backtracking aimlessly.
"Ow! I have something in my eye!"	Special Air Force planes called "Hurricane Hunters" routinely fly into hurricanes to make observations.
Not enough elbow room	In rare cases, hurricane-like storms form in the Mediterranean Sea
The 1935 Florida Keys Hurricane	On Labor Day, 1935, the Keys were blasted by the strongest hurricane ever to hit the United States, with winds of over 200 mph!
"Hey two eyes!"	In reality, the very strongest types of hurricanes do sometimes develop two concentric eyewalls.
Who should pay for hurricane damage	1992's Hurricane Andrew was the costliest disaster is United States history.
Hurricane reaction to the movie about them	In the olden days of cinema, a black-and-white movie was made about hurricanes.
"Erin, you've just become a hurricane! What are you going to do next?"	A new take on a SuperBowl cliché.
How hurricanes feel about evacuation	With the advent of satellite and radar, it is now possible to get out of the way of most hurricanes...when the warnings come early enough and are heeded.
Hurricane Emily hugs the coast	Emily annoyed residents of North and South Carolina in 1993, but paled next to big brother Andrew of the year before.
Hurricane's feelings about grafitti on boarded windows	While boarding up windows before a hurricane, many coastal residents keep their sense of humor and spraypaint messages to the hurricane on their plywood shutters. :-)
Hurricane homework	I like bad puns. So sue me.
Hurricane home movies	Hey, it's better than Aunt Velma's slides from the Upper Ferdville Cheese Festival.
Watch for flying shingles!	Despite the danger of flying debris, most hurricane fatalities are caused by drowning in either the storm surge or the flooding rains.