Hypercane

A Hyperkan is a hypothetical weather event of extremely destructive effect. In the different theoretical models, one starts from an oversized tropical cyclone that would cause global devastation due to its size and the enormous wind speeds of up to 800 kilometers per hour.

A Hyperkan would be 30 km high, where the water vapor of the clouds mountains to the destruction of the ozone layer leads. However, it is also possible that the Cloud Hyperkan at the same height and wind speed has a diameter of only 16 km.

Coined the term in 1994 Kerry Emanuel.

Possible Causes

According to some researchers, a Hyperkan can form only at unusually high water temperatures of the oceans. During a hurricane only occurs when the water is warmer than 26.5 ° C, a value of 50 ° C would be required for the formation of a Hyperkans. Scientists do it for marine life anyway disastrous temperature to other global catastrophes back, so the impact of a large meteorite or comet, or the eruption of a super volcano. Some speculations go there to postulate the existence of Hyperkanen at the end of the Permian period, when there was a mass extinction or to make them for the extinction of the dinosaurs in charge (co-).