From space, they appear as a giant mass of swirling clouds that can cover half of the continental United States, but this hides the chaos below. Hurricanes are intensely powerful storms that can flood cities with heavy rains and high surf or wreck them with their strong winds and multiple tornadoes. These storms form slowly over the course of days, as a single storm of heavy rains and strong winds circling a central low-pressure system, known as the "eye." Though the center of the [...]
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