Tropical Cyclones Summary
Summary: Tropical Cyclones A Tropical Cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms. Tropical Cyclones are named with people’s names. These names are alphabetically ordered, according to when they occur, its location and strength for example, here is the list of 2017´s Tropical Cyclones: Adrian, Beatriz, Calvin, Dora, Eugene, Fernanda, Greg, Hilary, Irwin, Jova, Kenneth, Lidia, Max, Norma, Otis, Pilar, Ramon, Selma, Todd, Veronica, Wiley, Xina, York and Zelda. Tropical Cyclones used warm air as fuel, this is why they only form in warm ocean waters near the equator. This warm air rises upward from near the surface, there is less air left near the surface. causing an area of lower air pressure. So, air from surrounding areas with higher air pressure pushes into the low pressure area, so the warm air continue rising and cool off, and the wate...