When winds are hitting 150km/hr a west coast storm is still just called a storm not a hurricane. why is that?
2006-12-29 18:33:57 · 3 answers · asked by ogopogo 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Cause it doesn't have an eye like a hurricane... no twisting if that makes any sense.
2006-12-29 20:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Nikki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though the winds you mention are often referred to as "hurricane-force winds," the storms that cause them are not hurricanes. These severe west coast storms are not generated by the same meteorological mechanisms that bring hurricanes and don't have the characteristic tight spiral shape of hurricanes.
2006-12-30 02:42:33 · answer #2 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was gust. And that was measured up in mountain somewhere. It was not sustained wind speed at 100mph or whatever they measured. And it doesn't have eye like hurricane. Hurricane forms in warm water into spinning air and move to land, but this is just wind created by pressure gradient.
2006-12-30 02:39:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋