Benefits from Hurricanes?

It may be a mite baffling for some when hearing about typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones. Are they different storms? Pretty much the same type of thing with names based on their locations. Those in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise and those in the Southern Hemisphere rotate clockwise.

What may be surprising is that these big storms have many benefits. (Indeed, lightning striking the ground is beneficial.) That is something unlikely to appear on a news broadcast because fear and destruction are good for viewership ratings. Sometimes we hear about how they form, though.

Hurricane Erin, NASA Earth Observatory / Michala Garrison

These monsters of destruction are actually beneficial for life on Earth. Hurricanes help the global heat balance by absorbing heat energy and redistributing it. They also replenish water supplies and rainfall, and the rotations encourage new plant growth. And much more. Secularists hand wave the benefits as products of evolution, but study on this a spell: What creatures are evolving hurricane resistance? Even in the calamitous power of hurricanes, God demonstrates his care for the planet.

. . . While hurricanes are known for their destructive power, a June 2025 article by Brandon M. Genco and colleagues in the Science Advances Journal highlights their simultaneous beneficial role and useful function.

Genco and colleagues highlighted a trove of previous studies on hurricane functions. It formed the basis of their continued exploration of the impacts of hurricane activity. Quoting from the article, Genco et al stated that:

Read the rest of this interesting article at "Storms Are Not All Bad; They Provide Benefits to Earth."