Question

A violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle _______.

Answer 1

Hint: Storm is a catch-all phrase for a wide range of atmospheric disturbances, from common rain showers and snowstorms to thunderstorms, wind, and wind-related disturbances like gales, tornadoes, tropical cyclones, and sandstorms. There could be severe winds, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning, heavy precipitation, heavy freezing rain (ice storm), strong winds (tropical cyclone, windstorm), cyclone, and other significant disruptions to usual conditions..

Complete answer:
Tropical cyclones are powerful circular storms that form over warm tropical oceans and bring torrential precipitation and winds of more than 119 kilometres per hour. Hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms, cyclonic storms, tropical depression, or simply cyclones are all names given to tropical cyclones based on their location and strength.

Even in their early phases of development, tropical cyclones pose a hazard to life and property. Storm surge, flooding, strong winds, tornadoes, and lighting are all risks that can have a severe impact on life and property.

The conservation of the angular momentum imparted by the Earth's rotation as air flows inwards toward the axis of rotation causes the intense rotating winds of a tropical storm. As a result, they almost never occur within 5 degrees of the equator. Due to very significant wind shear and a small Intertropical Convergence Zone, tropical cyclones are nearly unheard of in the South Atlantic.

Therefore the correct answer is ‘Cyclone’.

Note: Cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea are caused by the African easterly jet and areas of atmospheric instability, whereas cyclones in Australia are caused by the Asian monsoon and the Western Pacific Warm Pool.