It's all chaotic. Read "Chaos" by James Gleick. Hurricanes are just
nature's way of getting some of the accumulated heat in the tropics
mixed into the upper latitudes via jetstreams and such.

Of course, my recently repaired fishing boat, a 22' Pathfinder, is
stored in a marina near Freeport Tx and may not be there in three
days. My brother left Lake Jackson for Austin today, and Dad leaves
Danbury tomorrow morning. If you're in the path of one of these, it
damned sure seems more chaotic than normal. This is one of the few
times I'm glad to be sitting in Midland, Michigan instead of Texas.

I don't remember my thermo well at all, but hurricanes being mixing,
entropy would be increasing, ie., trending toward a less ordered
system.

Pete Keillor

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:12:44 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote:

The atmosphere is generally calm and non-chaotic compared to extreme
conditions such as hurricanes. Taken as a system, what changes occur to the
entropy of the atmosphere during severe disturbances?

Bob Swinney