hurricanes

Warm Water, Rising Air, and a 400-Mile Engine of Destruction: How a Hurricane Is Born

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Reading Time: 9 minutes | Category: Weather Explained How do hurricanes form? Warm ocean water, a disturbance, thunderstorms, and low wind shear combine to create a spinning heat engine that can stretch 400 miles across with 157-mile-per-hour winds. For 40 million Americans in hurricane-prone coastal counties, understanding how do hurricanes form is survival knowledge. This … Read more

Why Do Hurricanes Spin Counterclockwise? The Science Behind the Spin

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Satellite view of a hurricane showing counterclockwise spiral rotation over the Atlantic Ocean

When you look at a satellite image of a hurricane spinning over the Atlantic, one truth holds every single time. In the Northern Hemisphere, the storm always rotates counterclockwise. Hurricanes in the Southern Hemisphere spin the opposite way. The question of why do hurricanes spin counterclockwise traces back to the rotation of Earth itself. The … Read more

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