Is there any benefit to a raging hurricane?
According to NASA, “Hurricanes are the most powerful accumulations of energy on Earth”. They are violent ocean-churning storms that have a purpose. Hurricanes release a tremendous amount of rainfall, in 2003, Hurricane Isabella dropped 400 trillion tons of fresh water before blowing out. Hurricanes act as huge desalination factories bringing much needed fresh water to hot, drought affected countries. Many regions of the world owe their harvest success to hurricanes, they water the crops and replenish groundwater.
Hurricanes cool the ocean, the hot surface waters are replaced by deeper, cooler water moving upward after the removal of hot ocean water via evaporation. By using satellites to track the path of a hurricane, we can “see” the heat content of the ocean’s surface water. The trailing pathway of a hurricane is considerably cooler after the storm passes. After Hurricane Fabian passed, the ocean waters were 10 degrees cooler.Hurricanes act as a safety valve and spread this extra heat out away from the tropical zones toward the poles. When the ocean waters evaporate, they remove the heat and release it into the atmosphere, often far from where the storm first picked it up. Yes, hurricanes are powerful storms, but they do much more than harmful destruction.
(Source: Inspired Evidence Von Vett & Malone)
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