{"id":6335,"date":"2026-06-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:47:40","slug":"the-path-of-tropical-cyclones-where-they-hit-hardest-and-how-their-intensity-is-measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"The path of tropical cyclones: where they hit hardest and how their intensity is measured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>Tropical cyclones have different names depending on the ocean basin where they form. They differ substantially from extratropical cyclones (storms): we explain them here.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nociones-basicas-sobre-los-ciclones-tropicales-1781360074663.webp\" data-image=\"aovy80gejiuh\" alt=\"Hurac\u00e1n en el Golfo de M\u00e9xico\" title=\"Hurac\u00e1n en el Golfo de M\u00e9xico\">Satellite image of Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico, before making landfall \u2013 as a Category 4 hurricane \u2013 on the Louisiana coast (USA), on August 27, 2020. \u00a9 CSU\/CIRA and NOAA\/NESDIS<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Cyclones and anticyclones form naturally in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere<\/strong> . The type of weather associated with a cyclone (&#8220;bad weather&#8221;) is radically different from that associated with an anticyclone (clear or partly cloudy skies and calm winds). Low-pressure systems and hurricanes are specific types of cyclones. Each forms in different regions of the Earth. <strong>A low-pressure system is an extratropical cyclone, while a hurricane is a tropical cyclone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tropical cyclones are morphologically distinct from subtropical cyclones. Their core is warm, unlike that of low-pressure systems, which is composed of cold air of polar origin. Furthermore, <strong>in the central part of a hurricane, descending air currents dissipate cloud cover in that area, forming the characteristic &#8220;eye&#8221;<\/strong> visible from satellite imagery. Around this eye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ Tropical cyclones have different names depending on the ocean basin where they form. They differ substantially from extratropical cyclones (storms): we explain them here. Satellite image of Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico, before making landfall \u2013 as a Category 4 hurricane \u2013 on the Louisiana coast (USA), on August 27, 2020. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","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\/6335","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=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}