Hurricanes

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Brought to you by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

This website is not only an educational website starting from basic information and continuing to various technical aspects of hurricanes and their additional threats, but also a database on the history of hurricanes in America. To view past hurricanes and graphics of their paths across the continent, look at history. This history covers hurricans from 1900 to 2008. To learn all about how hurricanes are forecasted, look at hurricane forecast process. As this website is devoted to hurricane understanding and preparedness,to learn about disaster prevention, look at be prepared.

At the bottom of this site their are links to take you to USA Hurricane related organizations, and additional information provided by each for natural disasters. For the most up to date information on current hurricanes occurring around the world, check out any one of these sites. NHC - [|NWS] - NOAA - FEMA

__**[|National Geographic- Force of Nature: Hurricanes]**__

This website offers a small interactive which students could navigate though and determine general information about hurricanes. The general information includes what a hurricane is, its characteristics, effects and information about hurricane prediction. At the end of the interactive a student would be able to create different types of hurricanes by changing different conditions such as temperature, humidity, and pressure.

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