Case of the Soda Explosion and Other True Science Mysteries for You to Solve

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Case CRACKED MAKING WAVES To solve this mystery you have to know how hurricanes form Hurricanes are powerful tropical storms They always start over warm ocean water Warm wet air rises from the ocean As the air rises it cools and forms clouds The forming clouds give off heat that the storm uses as energy As more air rises and cools the storm grows and spins When the winds in the storm reach 74 miles 119 kilometers per hour the storm has become a hurricane Lake Michigan is definitely not an ocean In fact this lake is only 307 miles 494 km long and up to 118 miles 190 km wide The average hurricane is about 300 miles 483 km wide So most hurricanes would be larger than the lake itself Hurricane Formation A hurricane couldn't have formed in winds flow outward allowing air to rise Lake Michigan But what did the diary writer see The writer could have been describing a seiche Seiche is a French word that means to sway back and forth Storms with high winds can cause a body of water such as Lake Michigan to slosh back and forth The water sloshes from shore to shore much like water in a basin As the water sloshes the waves grow The waves that hit the opposite shore can be more than 10 feet 3 meters high humid air forms clouds outside winds steer the storm rising winds come up center of storm and spin warm ocean water rises into air