{"id":5880,"date":"2026-05-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:28:01","slug":"a-meteorologist-reveals-the-main-differences-between-a-hurricane-and-a-tropical-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5880","title":{"rendered":"A meteorologist reveals the main differences between a hurricane and a tropical storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>Tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes are all stages of the same phenomenon. The difference is determined by wind speed, but the real danger is often the water they leave behind.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cuales-son-las-principales-diferencias-entre-un-huracan-y-una-tormenta-tropical-1778946094607.webp\" data-image=\"d5ltj6xcmw4f\" alt=\"tropical cyclone; Atlantic; hurricane; storm; rain\" title=\"tropical cyclone; Atlantic; hurricane; storm; rain\">Hurricane season officially begins on May 15 in the Pacific and June 1 in the Atlantic.<\/figure>\n<p>Over tropical oceans, some storms begin as little more than a disorganized disturbance of clouds and rain. But under the right conditions, they can gradually transform into a system capable of reshaping entire landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, during hurricane season, certain terms appear constantly in forecasts and alerts. Sometimes we hear about tropical storms, other times about hurricanes. And they are not isolated phenomena. They are different chapters within the same atmospheric story.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the National Hurricane Center, between 1980 and 2023, about 66% of tropical systems that formed in the Atlantic did not become hurricanes, and approximately 1 in 2 reached tropical storm strength at most.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical cyclone is a low-pressure system characterized by organized thunderstorms and winds that rotate around a center, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. Each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ Tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes are all stages of the same phenomenon. The difference is determined by wind speed, but the real danger is often the water they leave behind. Hurricane season officially begins on May 15 in the Pacific and June 1 in the Atlantic. Over tropical oceans, some storms begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}