What is the cause of hurricanes?

Question

Don't they occur in the same oceanc urrent as monsoons?

Answer 1

warm fronts and cold fronts meeting to the first front.
and yes on the second part just different parts of the world call them different things.

Answer 2

Necessary ingredients:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/A15.html

When you get these ingredients to come together, you get an area of tall (12-16km) thunderstorms over the ocean. These thunderstorms are associated with large areas where the warm, moist air from below is transported upward. As this moist air rises, it cools and condenses, releasing heat (which came from the warm ocean water) into the upper troposphere. This creates a warm dome of air aloft, which lowers the surface pressure and helps to make a low at the surface.

Eventually this circulation becomes organized and strengthens and a distinct in-up-out air current sets up. More and more evaporated ocean water is condensed aloft and makes the warm dome of air stronger and stronger, which in turn lowers surface pressure and strengthens the winds. Before too long, the winds in the tropical cyclone are at hurricane strength (equal to or greater than 74mph).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

Monsoons are a seasonal wind reversal and can be associated with wet and dry periods. Warm ocean waters come into play for both monsoons and hurricanes, but not the same way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon

Answer 3

Warm water, the effect of earth's spin north or south of the equator,
little wind shear are the main ingredients for a tropical cyclone.

Note that tropical cyclones never occur at the equator since
the Coriolis Force = 0

Answer 4

Usually hot air from the water and cold air from the wind clashes together and forms a funnel. The funnel then becomes a tropical storm. If the storm builds enough power it becomes a hurricane. I don't really remember the exact way but it's something like that

Answer 5

Hurricanes form by temperature and changes in the wind and atmosphere. The temperature MUST be at least 81 degrees fahrenheit. Hot and cold air coming into contact along with the warm temperature ignites it.

Answer 6

There are four primary causes to a hurricane. They are the sun, the ocean, the predominant trade wind and the Coriolis effect. I will explain each one in the succession that they take account of the production of a hurricane.

First, the sun heats the water. It is the sun that provides the energy and water vapor above sea level for a hurricane to start. What happens is that as the sun heats the eastern oceans at mid-latitudes, it makes the water evaporate to form a squall line of thunderstorms over the ocean; this is where the water comes in, along with the sun.
As the water vapor forms in to thunderclouds, the rain that makes up the main consistency of a hurricane is ready. As the heat becomes of more within the clouds, they start to expand and form in to a storm mass of great area and a relatively flat top; the flat top is the result of the rising vapor rising up before it can go up no further. This pressure causes more energy to build up inside the hurricane.
Now comes the predominant trade wind in to account. The trade wind is what pushes the storm mass in a specific direction.
Now comes the Coriolis effect. You can make logic out of the fact that portions of a sphere, with a smaller diameter, spin slower than portions of a sphere, with a larger diameter, in order to complete any angle of rotation. In the same basic way, the locations of latitudes closer to one of the poles spin slower than locations of latitude closer to the equatorial measure. So the portion of the storm mass that is the furthest from the equator will move across the ocean slower, slower than the portions nearest and/or at the equator line. This means that the portion of the storm mass that moves over the surface will eventually rotate around the slower-moving portion, causing the storm mass to rotate. Just as a side note, you can tell that hurricanes in the northern hemisphere will rotate counter-clockwise, while hurricanes in the southern hemisphere will rotate clockwise.
These phenomenons are the primary step to forming a hurricane.

Now that this is explained, let's talk about the later sets of events that happen within a hurricane.
As the storm mass moves across the warm ocean, it picks up warm water vapor, thus drawing in more physical makeup and energy in to itself. All the heat energy within a hurricane causes the air from within it to rise. When the warm air rises as high as it can go, it reaches a point at which there is not enough air pressure to obtain heat. Therefore the air, now above the hurricane, cools. This cold air, trying to go down, presses against newly warm air rising from the hurricane. This pressure causes the cold air to press against the warm air enough to break the barrier of warm air, literally piercing a hole through the storm mass; that hole is called the eye. The eye of the storm is crucial to the life of a hurricane, as cold air descending goes down the eye, ready to get warmed again, when passed under the hurricane and over the warm ocean heat. Also, if the cold air would not be able to go anywhere, the warm air underneath it would have nowhere to go, thus just displacing the hurricane across the ocean, in to big clouds scattered across the horizon.
So in the mature stage of the hurricane, the hurricane basically repeats a cycle of drawing up warm and moist air from underneath itself, having the warm air rise and cool, fall down the eye and down the sides of the hurricane, to be warmed up again. Also, the air that descends and doesn't get warmed again pushes against the ocean, creating the high winds of a hurricane.
An average hurricane can last for about a week before dissipating and losing power. Hurricanes die out over dry land, because there is no warm and moist air to support them to be a hurricane.
An average hurricane produces enough power to meet the power-standards for our world two-hundred times over, both in latent heat and in the potential-energy differential between different angles of the earth.

Answer 7

Duh.......wind