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Originally posted by Notorious MINAJ
So when a hurricane/tropical storm forms and is moving across the ocean does it drag the water along with it or is does the flooding occur due to the strong winds pushing water onto the land? I never really understood how places flooded like that. I know I probably sound stupid lol  |
Tropical cyclones consist of organized thunderstorms around a low pressure center. If you look at the GIF of Hurricane Nicole that I posted above, all of the colored areas are thunderstorms, with the darker colors representing colder cloud tops (more intense thunderstorms which will produce more rain and stronger winds). These systems don't drag water with them, but they do derive a lot of thermal energy from the water that they are over. That's why they can't survive when they pass over colder waters.
I think you're referring to storm surge, which is explained very well in this NOAA
PDF.
its rainning so hard here
. They need to leave.
I came up to Atlanta because of the storm and know multiple others that did as well 
It is forecast to reach Cat 3 now.
