Disaster Ready Hurricanes Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters. Evaporation from the seawater increases their power. Hurricanes have winds at least 74 miles per hour.
Hurricanes are fascinating to youngsters.
They incorporate earth science, history, writing, art, math, geography and other school subjects. Below are some lecture materials, suggested classroom exercises, and sources of more information that you can include in your lesson plans. When these conditions occur, pre-existing disturbances of many types can begin to organize into a tropical depression, then a tropical storm, then a hurricane. Here, disturbances move westward from Africa several times a week that have the potential to strengthen. Hurricane damage is due to both wind and water.