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Waiting for the Hurricane Section Task : Get Ready Preparing and role-playing a TV interview In this section , you will find out more about how hurricanes begin and how to prepare for them . In groups , you will prepare and act out a role-play about a town facing a natural disaster . 1 The following article is about how and where hurricanes start . Read the list of words in the box below and decide which of the words will probably be in the article . With a partner , give reasons for your choice . U Read the article to learn about where hurricanes start . Where Hurricanes are Born When people think of hurricanes , they usually think of water and wind . That is because hurricanes are strong storms that bring a lot of rain . However , it might surprise a lot of people to know that many hurricanes start over hot and dry areas . In fact , almost all of the large hurricanes that strike the United States start in the desertof west Africa . Hurricanes start when the dry air of the desert meets the wind from the high mountains . The mixture of sand , dusty air and wind makes clouds . These clouds bring rainstorms that quickly travel across the African desert and reach the west coast of Africa . Sometimes , these storms die out over the Atlantic Ocean . But sometimes , they get more energy and develop into threatening hurricanes . When this happens , people in the Caribbean and the east coast of America have to prepare for danger . o Meteorologists study the weather . They try to understand how hurricanes are born so that they can make better predictions . Unfortunately , it is not easy to understand nature . Meteorologists cannot yet tell which desert storms will become hurricanes . But they have not given up hope . They hope that one day they will be able to follow the hurricanes when they start in the desert and forecast them with more certainty . Then people will have more time to prepare for the storms , and lives may be saved . clouds desert dry energy hot meteorologists mountains predictions rain sand storms strong water wind

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