Hurricanes
Hurricanes are tropical weather conditions that are powered by heat from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico and are steered by trade winds to the north, northwest, or northeast of its origin. Depending upon location, these possibly severe tropical weather conditions have different names around the world. In the Atlantic/Eastern Pacific Oceans, they are called “hurricanes”; in the Western Pacific, they are known as “typhoons”, and in the Indian Ocean, they are known as “cyclones”.
