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Hurricane hitting the coast with bent palm trees, driving rain and a boat slammed against the dock. A weather printable for kids; free PDF download.
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Download PDFPrintClouds, heavy slanted rain, bent palm trees, houses with debris blowing, a wooden pier and a motorboat tossed by waves.
Draw the rain with slanted blue and gray strokes and use deep greens for the whipping palms.
Track a real hurricane on a map using its daily positions and label the places it passed.
Specially equipped Hurricane Hunter aircraft fly straight into these storms to collect data from the inside.
A hurricane hitting the coast brings fierce winds, pounding rain and a storm surge that pushes seawater far onto land. These storms can be hundreds of miles wide, which makes them much bigger, though usually less concentrated, than a tornado.
Hurricanes form over warm tropical oceans. Heat and moisture rise from the water, build towering clouds and release energy that feeds the storm like fuel. Because Earth rotates, the whole system begins to spin around a calm center called the eye, where winds can drop and the sky may even clear for a while.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center rank hurricanes from Category 1 to Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, based on wind speed. The same kind of storm is called a typhoon in the western Pacific and a cyclone in the Indian Ocean. Once a hurricane moves over land, it loses its warm-water fuel and slowly weakens.
This scene can help kids understand why families along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic sometimes evacuate, how forecasts give people time to prepare and why communities need help rebuilding afterward.
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