“The development of a tropical cyclone also relies on favourable broad-scale wind regimes and can persist for several days with many following quite erratic paths. They lose their source of energy when they move over land or colder oceans causing them to dissipate. read more
Cyclones, also known as hurricanes or typhoons, are primarily caused by high ocean temperatures, broad-scale wind systems and clustered thunderstorms, which liberate the heat energy from the ocean surface and transfer it to the cyclone. read more
Sometimes a decaying tropical cyclone may interact with a weather system in higher latitudes to cause impacts far from the tropics” (Ibid, 2008). The eye of the cyclone is the centre of the cyclone where the focus lies. read more