Two things are necessary to start a circular storm: a quiet, sheltered, windless ea and a hot sun. When these two things combine, a typhoon is invariably started. If the earth's—blanket of revolved with the earth there would be areas of perpetual typhoon and China and Florida would escape. However, as the earth sping it trails the air behind it. like streamers on an electric fan; and so, once started, the typhoon begins to slip to the westward, lof, behind by the hurrying earth.
When the birth-place of the storm ig surrounded at fairly close range by hills and rocks, forests and cliffs, the storm soon breaks up. When it hag the open sea for a playground, it grows in size and violence.. gradually drifting northward, pushed by the resisting quiet air which it is disturbing, until its strength wanes and the backlash of its own fury drives it northeast and out to sea again, dying as it strikes the cold air currents of the 40th parallel.
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