Flurricane

A flurricane or an arctic cyclone is a hurricane-like cyclone that gets its energy from cool water and precipitates mostly ice instead of rain. They originate from the southern coast of Greenland from an arctic wave. Flurricanes have their own season, which lasts from December 1 to May 30 in the North Atlantic. This is when most flurricanes form and it sharply peaks from late February through March. In a nutshell, flurricanes are the polar (get it?) opposite of hurricanes.

The National Flurricane Center (NFC), located in New York, New York, tracks and predicts flurricanes within the Arctic Ocean. They use the Saffir-Simpson Flurricane Scale (SSFS), named after the SSHS, to classify them.