Features of Tropical Storms
Geography: AQA GCSE, topic 1.3.8
Features of Tropical Storms
Listed below are the main features of tropical storms:
Circular shape
- They are circular shape.
Size
- They span hundreds of kilometres wide.
Duration
- They usually last 1 to 2 weeks.
Spin direction depends on the hemisphere
- In the northern hemisphere, tropical storms spin anticlockwise.
- In the southern hemisphere, tropical storms spin clockwise.
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