3.1.1.3 Weather hazards (part b) tropical storms Typeit

In the centre of the storm is the . Here, cold air sinks, the skies are clear, and there is no or rain. Next is the eye . Conditions here are the worst - very high winds (119 km/hour or more for a category hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale or 120 km/hour on the Beaufort Scale, more than double that for category 5!), torrential rain, and thunder and as air rapidly rises. Further out are clouds called rain which spawn thunderstorms, and sometimes tornadoes. As the distance from the decreases so too does the amount of rainfall. When seen from above, the large circle of cloud is viewed, the cloud is created by the outflow or air. The cloud type in the eye wall is cumulo. In the northern hemisphere, they rotate -clockwise and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.