<h1 class="ql-align-center">Hurricane Ida&nbsp;</h1> <h2>Context:</h2> <ul><li>Recently, Hurricane&nbsp;Ida made landfall in Louisiana, US.&nbsp;It is an extremely dangerous&nbsp;Category 4 storm&nbsp;and&nbsp;one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US.</li></ul> <h2>Hurricane:</h2> <ul><li>Hurricanes are the&nbsp;biggest and most violent storms&nbsp;on the planet.</li></ul> <ul><li>Hurricanes or Tropical cyclones use warm, moist air as fuel,&nbsp;and therefore&nbsp;form over warm ocean waters near the equator.</li></ul> <ul><li>Hurricanes&nbsp;are categorized on&nbsp;the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which rates them on a scale of 1 to 5 based on wind speed.</li></ul> <img src="https://sunyaias-resources.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/content/6eec7218-3ecd-11ec-896c-09c39727a300.png"><h2> </h2><h2>Hurricanes formation:</h2> <ul><li>As NASA describes it, when the warm, moist air rises upward from the surface of the ocean, it creates an area of low air pressure below.</li></ul> <ul><li>Air from the surrounding areas rushes to fill this place, eventually rising when it becomes warm and moist too.</li></ul> <ul><li>When&nbsp;the warm air rises and cools off, the moisture forms clouds.&nbsp;This system of clouds and winds continues to grow and spin, fuelled by the ocean’s heat and the water that evaporates from its surface.</li></ul> <ul><li>As such storm systems rotate faster and faster,&nbsp;an eye forms in the centre.</li></ul> <ul><li>Storms that form towards the north of the equator rotate&nbsp;counterclockwise, while those that form to the south spin&nbsp;clockwise&nbsp;because of the rotation of the Earth.</li></ul> <img src="https://sunyaias-resources.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/content/6eec7219-3ecd-11ec-896c-09c39727a300.png"> <h2>Hurricanes names around the world:</h2> <img src="https://sunyaias-resources.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/content/6eec721a-3ecd-11ec-896c-09c39727a300.png">