20 Amazing Hurricane Facts For Kids

By Aarohi Achwal - Updated: April 24, 2020

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Interesting Facts and Information About Hurricane For Children

Hurricanes are extremely interesting natural phenomenons. They carry a lot of information that are definitely of interest to little kids. Reading out hurricane facts for children is a great way to keep their little minds engaged and interested about mother nature.

Interesting Facts and Information About Hurricane For Children

We’ve broken down some interesting hurricane information for kids, including elucidating the difference between cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons and more. Read on –

A hurricane generally consists of a tropical storm, with intense rain and heavy winds.
There are many more names for a hurricane which include cyclone, typhoon and tropical storm.
While they are essentially the same thing, the different names usually indicate where the storm took place. Tropical storms that form in the Atlantic or Northeast Pacific (near the United States) are called hurricanes, those that form near in the Northwest Pacific (near Japan) are called typhoons and those that form in the South Pacific or Indian oceans are called cyclones.
Hurricanes are usually formed in tropical areas around the world.
Hurricanes are known to develop right over warm water and use it as an energy source.
Hurricanes tend to lose strength when they move over land.
Coastal regions are more at risk from hurricanes.
Hurricanes can also create tornadoes, high waves and widespread flooding along with heavy rains.
Hurricanes are generally regions of lower atmospheric pressure (and this is also called a depression).
The wind flow of hurricanes in the southern hemisphere is clockwise while the wind flow of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere is counterclockwise.
The weather right in the middle, which is the eye of a hurricane is categorized as calm.
The eye of a hurricane can range from a diameter of 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) to over 200 miles (320 kilometres) and they get to around 30 miles (48 kilometres).
The strongest winds are around the eye of the hurricane
Tracking hurricanes can be done by weather satellites and weather radar closer to land.
In the last 200 years, hurricanes have led to the death of around 2 million people.
The 1970, Bhola Cyclone that struck Bangladesh killed over 300000 people.
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina killed over 1800 people in the United States and caused around $80 billion dollars worth of property damage. The city of New Orleans was hit particularly hard with levee breaches leading to around 80% of the city being flooded.
Each year, the World Meteorological Organization names tropical storms in alphabetical order. That name stays with the storm until it develops into a hurricane. The same names can be repeated after six years.
In 1953, the US Weather Bureau switched to women’s names for hurricanes.
There are computer models which can predict the amount of storm surge in a coastal area. These are called Slosh Models.