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Also Cyclone and Typhoon*.
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with winds velocities exceeding and often reaching over 100 miles per hour, usually covering a large area and accompanied by thunder, lightning and heavy rain, occurring especially in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricanes are powerful storms that develop over warm, tropical oceans and measure several hundred miles in diameter.
Hurricanes have two main parts; the eye of the hurricane ― which is a calm area in the center of the storm usually measuring about 20 miles in diameter and presenting very few clouds ― and the wall of clouds that surrounds the calm eye. At the wall of clouds is where the hurricane's strongest winds and heaviest rain occur.
Hurricanes are very dangerous over the oceans, but it is upon landfall that they can cause the most severe damage, destruction and loss of life.
(*) The terms 'hurricane' and 'typhoon' are regionally specific names for a strong 'tropical cyclone'.
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Sources: (1) Diagram Group, Running Press Cyclopedia: The Ultimate Visual Reference Tool, Running Press Book Publishers; (2) Abbott, Patrick L., Natural Disasters, McGraw-Hill Publishers; (3) Withington, John, Disaster! A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes, Skyhorse Publishing.
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