Thursday, September 30, 2010

Science News-How much does a Hurricane weigh??

Wondering how much does water does it have in a cloud?
Based on the video- http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/09/23/130078553/a-hurricane-weighs-how-much 
It has tons of water, it is filled with it but it depends on the size of the cloud to see how much pounds does it weigh. For example, a cloud can be weighed up to 216,000 (2/3 of a whale), and maybe more!!In addition, you would see molecules pushing up the clouds but usually it is invisible for people to see.As long as there are molecules or the air pushing up, the water will stay up there because it doesn't have enough power to push the air down. That is mainly how a puffy white cloud is.
Therefore, one of the stormy dark clouds can weigh up to 105.8 million pounds, way more than the puffy white clouds and one whale, of course!!
Between all of that, don't you think hurricanes weigh more than that? Well, of course it does!! It can be started as 108 BILLION POUNDS!!! Inside all that hurricane weight, it is about 360,000 blue whales, more than how much whales it has in this planet!!
Hurricanes absorbs water from somewhere and drop it into some other planet.
Compare the weight of a hurricane to yourself!!! Isn't there a huge difference?



I think it is also important to know about how much hurricanes weigh and gain more knowledge about it because hurricanes can blow almost anything away. For instance, a truck, people, and etc. mainly because a hurricane is so powerful and you can compare it to a whale too. We never know who can actually make it through a hurricane because the Earth is not operated in humans' hands, but hopefully we all will survive and make the best out of life.

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