Few people truly have an understanding of where and how hurricanes develop. The hurricane season starts during late summer and early fall along the coast line of North America and the Caribbean, but in the western hemisphere the season lasts all year long (Knowledge 293). A hurricane develops when condensation occurs and rises. Surrounding air spirals around the sea of low pressure and clouds form creating a thunder -storm (Knowledge 293). These events could take hours or even days. Trade winds carry the storm westward about 12

In the 1950’s a hurricane center was developed. The National Hurricane Center or NHC, is the main hurricane-tracking center (Longshore 349). The NHC’s main job is to track hurricanes and release weather updates to other weather centers and to the public. Updated weather information is released every six hours. One of the ways of tracking was developed in the mid 1950’s. It was a coordinate system that has made periodic improvements over the years (“Hurricanes”). The primary method of tracking storms in modern day is by satellite systems that are placed in outer space. The satellite sends weather updates and pictures of the hurricane’s position (“Hurricanes”).

An awareness of the history and development of storms, the use of hi-tech tracking equipment, and respect for these storms better prepares today’s public to deal with hurricanes. Hurricanes are very beautiful storms, but they are one of Mother Nature’s tremendous forces that cannot be touched or controlled by any creation of mankind.

The method of researching characteristics of hurricanes is done mainly by aircraft. Since 1943, United States aircraft have been flying into hurricanes to measure wind velocity and direction (“Hurricanes”). NHC, hurricane research division of scientists then takes the scientific facts and uses them to warn people faster so they can take better precautions and maybe save more lives.

In 1935, the Florida Keys was hit by the strongest hurricane ever recorded. On August 29th, the hurricane began tracking westward for Cuba, then turned more northward, heading for the Keys. On September 3, the storm hit the middle of the Keys with wind gusts of over one hundred-fifty mile per hour (Weather Encyclopedia). The death toll was four hundred and the storm was a category five. It was just one of two hurricanes to reach the category five status this century (Weather Encyclopedia).

miles per hour. Spiraling winds are blowing about forty miles per hour and at this point the storm starts spiraling around a calm low pressure area in the center of the storm (Knowledge 293). This area is known as the eye of the storm. The eye of the hurricane may measure ten to twenty miles across and while winds are raging around the eye, it remains calm inside the eye (Longshore 349). Skies overhead may be clear or partly cloudy. Winds

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