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Please explain to me how earth’s hydrosphere and atmosphere interact during hurricane formation.

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The hurricanes or also called tropical cyclones are formed as storms over warm and moist water. This warmth leads to evaporation of water, in the form of water vapors. Then these vapors rise until enormous amounts of heated moist air are twisted high in the atmosphere. So the atmosphere of the earth has air and the hydrosphere contains water. These combine to form hurricanes.

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When the air above the warm ocean water is warmed and evaporated in the form of water vapors. These vapors act as a fuel for the hurricane formation as it is strengthened by the latent heat released by condensation of the vast amounts of water vapor.
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