Storms

                                                                                                     By: Matei Mandoiu

                                                                                                                                                         I.            Storms

There are three main storms; tornadoes, lightning storms, and hurricanes. A tornado is a small funnel cloud (a cloud that is shaped like a funnel) spinning quickly in circles, destroying everything in its path. Lightning can be different colors. It’s formed by tiny droplets rubbing together forming electricity. Hurricanes are the biggest and have 5 speeds. Hurricanes are very strong over water but die away over land.

                                                                                                                                                      II.            Tornadoes
Tornadoes usually occur during early April to middle June. It is very hard to take a picture of one because they are very fast. Tornados are very powerful and are faster in spinning than you can blink. Usually, tornadoes are at less speed than 110 miles per hour (177 km per hour) but they can go to the speed of 302 miles per hour (486.021888 km per hour).


                                                                                                                                             III.            Lightning
Lightning is usually near water because it is attracted by the water. Lightning makes a path of electricity. It can actually strike the ground twice. The ground recharges the electricity in the lightning. The lightning flashes the first time, it splits up. How the lightning is formed is something else, the positive and negative charges are in a cloud, the charges rub together forming a small flash near the cloud. The negative charges fall slowly toward the ground. The first negative that touches the ground, turns every negative charge (including itself) positive, forming a big flash in every path the negative charges took.

                                                                                                                                               IV.            Hurricanes
Hurricanes are the most powerful and destructive storms on earth. They are huge and can be the size of Belarus, a country next to Ukraine. The hurricane has an eye, eye wall, and a spiral rainbow. The eye is usually calm, but the spiral rainbow is always roughly counter-clockwise. There are 5 categories, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (the strongest). When a hurricane slows down on land, it turns into a tropical storm. The hurricane moves slowly, but it is deadly.

                                                                                                                                                      V.            What damage they do
As you can see, Storms do a lot of damage. Tornadoes destroy objects in its path. Lightning blazes and catches dry objects on fire. And Hurricanes flood land with ocean water. Now you can see why you need to avoid storms, and why they are so dangerous.