Why can hurricanes dump so much water?

Seen the sheer SIZE of them? Seriously…… their force is built up from the sea. The sea, is, water, and LOTS of it…. So, when the hurricane approaches land, it charges itself up with the warm water. Hurricanes can only occur where the water is warm, although a shift in warm water currents can displace them sometimes. read more

Last Wednesday night, August 23, Harvey was a tropical depression, but after just eight overnight hours it was forming a hurricane eye wall. read more

It’s difficult to visualize just how much water is being deposited on Houston though. Every day, the estimates keep increasing for this “one-in-1,000 year” event. The latest is that about 56.8 trillion liters of water (15 trillion gallons) have fallen on Houston, but it’s predicted that this will total 75.7-94.6 trillion liters (20-25 trillion gallons) of water will have descended by the time Harvey dissipates. read more