so, as a hurricane moves over the ocean picking up speed, it also picks up sea water. the water is then released as rain when the hurricane passes over land. Is the rain that falls salt water? if not, what happened to the salt?
2007-10-21 10:36:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Think of it this way... as the hurricane picks up speed, the quicker speed of the air allows the water in the ocean to evaporate quicker, leaving the salt behind. So, when it rains, it's just plain water.
If you have a humidifier at home, this is similar to how it works. A fan blows air through a wet fiber or cardboard mesh, the water evaporates into the air (making it wetter / more humid) and leaves behind whatever other stuff was in the water, which is why you get those white deposits after a while.
2007-10-21 10:52:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
When water evaporates, the salt is left behind. The water is able to exist in a gas phase, but the salt is not and so remains a dissolved solid in the remaining water.
When water freezes to form sea ice, the salt remains in the liquid ocean and does not exist in the frozen water. This is why the polar regions have a higher salinity than other areas of the ocean.
For water droplets to form, they must condense on an aerosol. In this way, you could argue that rain is salt water if the droplet forms on a salt nucleus. However, the salt is very, very small compared to the size of the actual rain drop that falls, and hence can be regarded as fresh water.
2007-10-21 10:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Evaporation of water from the oceans as water vapour,condensation of the water vapour to form the hurricane clouds and the precipitation from those clouds is a distillation process carried out by the nature.You may be knowing that distillation process is done only to get a pure liquid.So, the water from the hurricane must be pure only without any salt.
2007-10-22 02:05:59 · answer #3 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water formed by a hurricane is fresh water. However, it could also blow salt water or cause flooding from the ocean over coastal areas.
2007-10-21 10:42:24 · answer #4 · answered by hwinnum 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, when water evapourates, the salt is separated from the water
2007-10-21 15:38:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋