Hurricane formation
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- When warm and wet air rises, it condenses to form towering clouds, heavy rainfall, therefore also creating a low-pressure zone near the water surface.
- Rising warm air causes the decreasing air pressure at higher altitudes.
- Warm air is under a higher pressure than cold air so moves towards space the colder lower pressure is.
- So low pressure sucks in air from the warm surroundings which also then rises.
- a continuous upflow of warm and wet air continues to create clouds and rain.