The Power of a Hurricane

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The Power of a Hurricane

#1 Postby isobar » Wed May 21, 2003 2:15 pm

I heard something like this before but just read this on my son's school website ...

"In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined."

Yep, that's exactly what Homestead looked like after Andrew went through. Wow :o
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#2 Postby cycloneye » Wed May 21, 2003 2:24 pm

Yes isobar a powerful hurricane can release tones of energy especially cat 4 and 5.And different from tornadoes that cover a not big area hurricanes are in general more than 300 miles in diameter but in some cases are bigger such as gilbert was in 1988.
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#3 Postby jabber » Thu May 22, 2003 7:51 am

Gilbert was a monster:

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... c-g7ir.jpg
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