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Hurricanes! How do scientists predict these big storms?
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Hurricanes bring heavy rain and strong winds.
George Kourounis is a storm chaser. He looks for storms and learns more about them.
When the wind blows, these plastic cups spin. This tool is an anemometer (a-nuh-MAH-muh-ter). It measures wind speed.
This handheld computer shows how fast the wind is blowing.
Hurricane winds can blow as fast as 155 miles per hour! That's faster than most trains go.
Hurricane
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...de Genlis, reputedly by Louis XVI's cousin, the Duc...with the future King Louis-Philippe of France among...request, France sent General Lazare Hoche with a fleet and some 14...previous career of General Hoche, the figure Fitzgerald...
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Magazine article from: The Historian
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