Hurricanes

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Hurricanes

• By Jennifer Kolenda

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What is a hurricane?

• A hurricane is a powerful storm with heavy rains
  and winds that are 74 miles per hour or more.
  The wind rotates in a circular motion.
• The center of the storm is called the eye of a
  hurricane.

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Hurricanes have names

• All hurricanes are all given names. The Atlantic
  Ocean hurricanes, the World Meteorological
  Organization has six lists of names. Each year a
  different list is used. The same names are reused
  every 6 years.
• Hurricanes names are no longer used if they cause
  a great deal of damage.

Here are few of the names that can be used this
year include Arlene , Cindy , Rita, Katrina,
Vince and Stan.
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More Information on hurricanes

• Hurricanes start off as tropical storm. As the
  winds gain speed over 74 miles per hour it
  becomes a hurricane.
• Hurricanes have five different categories they
  are classified into based on their wind speed.

Category 1 -- Winds 74-95 miles per hour
Category 2-- Winds 96-110 miles per hour
Category 3 -- Winds 111-130 miles per hour
Category 4 -- Winds 131-155 miles per hour
Category 5 -- Winds greater than 155 miles per
hour
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What did you learn?
A hurricane that has a wind speed of 111 to 131
miles per hour is considered to be ?
A. Category 1 Hurricane

• B. Category 3 hurricane

C. Category 2 Hurricane
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Opps Try again

• Go back and reread the hurricane information then
  try the question again.

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Correct

• You did a great job.

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Bio

• I am a junior at Western I am a returning
  student after spending a year and half at Grand
  Rapids Community College. This summer I got
  engaged to my high school sweetheart and am
  getting married next summer.

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Need to cite work

• Slide 2 information http//www.sciencenewsforkids.
  org/articles/20040929/Feature1.asp
• Picture hurricanes.noaa.gov/
• Slide 3 http//www.fema.gov/kids/huclasf.htm and
  http//www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/2004092
  9/Feature1.asp
• Picture www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/ links/hurricanes.
  Htm
• Slide 4 http//www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles
  /20040929/Feature1.asp
• Slide 5 picture www.hurricanetips.com/
  Images/Hurricanemain.jpg