Hurricanes can involve winds in excess of 130 km/h at the outer edge.
a) Make a crude estimate of the energy of such a hurricane, approximating it as a rigidly rotating uniform cylinder of air (density 1.3 kg/m^3) of radius 87 km and height 4.3 km.
b) Make a crude estimate of the angular momentum of such a hurricane.
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