Sally Vincent, of Columbus Ohio for her question:

Do hurricanes always start over the ocean?

We are not certain of the great weather forces which generate the howling hurricanes. But all of them begin where calm air broods over stretches of warm ocean. When ready, the winds of the new born storm start moving in a spiral direction. The vast storm begins to move away from its nesting places carrying its path of destruction north or south on.the prevailing winds.

These tropical cyclones have been given different names in different places though they are all of the same destructive nature. Those which rip through the Western Pacific are called typhoons; in the Philippines they are called baguios, in the Indian Ocean they are called cyclones. Those which roar up from the West Indies and tear along our eastern shores are called, hurricanes.