The hurricane may start as a sandstorm
Part 1
The hurricane may start in the desert, and then strengthen at the ocean. "The desert is its mother (that delivers it) and the ocean is its father (that grows and strengthens it.")
http://www.physorg.com/news74270454.html
http://www.livescience.com/environment/061010_dust_hurricanes.htmlhttp://www.physorg.com/news74270454.html
Others say the opposite: that the sandstorms of the African Sahara may depress the hurricane formation: i.e. the sand particles may suppress the formation of the hurricane.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2007/inside_hurricanes.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2007/inside_hurricanes.html
The tribe of Aad:
They were exterminated, by the hurricane, before the Islam; they dwelt near Yemen in a sand hills region; their main city was called Erum; their houses were strongly constructed with stones, and the columns were erected for their houses.
They were exterminated, by the hurricane, before the Islam; they dwelt near Yemen in a sand hills region; their main city was called Erum; their houses were strongly constructed with stones, and the columns were erected for their houses.
God – be glorified – sent them an apostle: Hood, who invited them to serve God alone, and to desert their idols, but they rejected him; so God loosed on them some stormy winds that lasted seven nights and eight days until they were totally exterminated.
God – be exalted – said in the Quran 69: 6-8
وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِرِيحٍ صَرْصَرٍ عَاتِيَةٍ . سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ . فَهَلْ تَرَى لَهُم مِّن بَاقِيَةٍ
The explanation:
(And as for Aad: they were exterminated by a "cold roaring" stormy wind.
(And as for Aad: they were exterminated by a "cold roaring" stormy wind.
That He made to rage against them for seven nights and eight days;
and which cut [the trees and palms] like [the cutting of the sword];
so that you might see the people lying [dead on the ground], as if they were hollow stems of palm-trees.
And can you see any of them left surviving!? [No, they all perished.] )
The stages of the hurricane of Aad:
- It may have started as a sandstorm.
- Then its speed started to increase.
- It outstripped - with its speed - the horse, the deer and every creature on earth.
- When it came and they saw it from a far distance, it looked like a cloud.
- It carried coldness, and had a roaring sound.
- It ripped through the land.
- It plucked the people from their homes and hiding places and cast them dead some distance away.
- It destroyed every thing: their crops and their property and themselves.
- People of the disbelievers were exterminated, and their [strongly-constructed stony] homes only were spared.
- The hurricane lasted seven nights and eight days, and it exterminated the disbelievers.
God threatened the idolater of Mecca: if they do not believe in Him as One God and in His apostle Mohammed; He will loose against them the storms, and will destroy them as had He exterminated the tribe of Aad with the hurricanes.
The wind minnows the hay and scatters the dust.
This is in the Quran 51: 1-4
وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا . فَالْحَامِلَاتِ وِقْرًا . فَالْجَارِيَاتِ يُسْرًا . فَالْمُقَسِّمَاتِ أَمْرًا
The explanation:
(1- By [those] scattering [winds, sent on Hood's people: the tribe of Aad,] that scattered!
2- And that bore the heavy load!
3- And that moved swiftly!
4- And [violently] parted the Am'r [: demons and souls!]
[If you [Meccans] believe not, We shall send on you such winds that will destroy you.] )
(1- By [those] scattering [winds, sent on Hood's people: the tribe of Aad,] that scattered!
2- And that bore the heavy load!
3- And that moved swiftly!
4- And [violently] parted the Am'r [: demons and souls!]
[If you [Meccans] believe not, We shall send on you such winds that will destroy you.] )
It mean here: it started as a wind that scattered the dust, then it grew stronger so that it carried the heavy loads, then it moved swiftly; so that it cast away the mighty genies (demons) with its strength and violence.
Other ayat, some of which I mention here may bear much knowledge about the hurricane and its development:
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