Learn — StormGlobe

A tropical cyclone is a rotating storm that forms over warm ocean water, organized around a low-pressure center. Depending on its strength and where it forms it’s called a tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane, typhoon or simply cyclone — all the same kind of storm under different regional names.

• 🌀How tropical cyclones form and strengthenWarm water, moisture and low wind shear — the ingredients, the naming ladder from depression to hurricane, and what fuels rapid intensification.
• 🎯Reading the forecast track and coneWhy the cone shows the center’s likely path — not the storm’s size or its hazards — and the single biggest mistake people make with it.
• 🌊Wind isn’t the deadliest partStorm surge, inland rainfall flooding, wind and tornadoes — and why water, not wind, causes most deaths.