While hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are one in the same, different names are used to determine the location of origin.
Here's a breakdown of the hurricane scale and why the location of where a storm occurs determines its name.
Roger Stone, Professor Emeritus in Climate Science at the University of Southern Queensland, says Hurricane Milton is so fierce because it "formed over excessively hot sea-surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico", similar to that of Hurricane Katrina.Well-constructed frame homes could have damage to roof, shingles, vinyl siding and gutters. Large branches of trees will snap and shallowly rooted trees may be toppled.
That's different to the Saffir-Simpson scale, which is based on maximum sustained wind speed over two minutes. "To be classified as a tornado, the rotating column must be in contact with the ground and the parent cloud at the same time."They can range in size from just a few tens of metres to more than a kilometre wide.
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