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AveGali [126]
3 years ago
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Why do areas near the tropics like the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea receive lots of hurricanes each year?

Geography
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kondaur [170]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Hurricanes form both in the Atlantic basin, to the east of the continental U.S., and in the Northeast Pacific basin, to the west of the U.S. The hurricanes in the Northeast Pacific almost never hit the U.S., however, whereas the ones in the Atlantic basin strike the U.S. mainland just less than twice a year on average.

There are two main reasons for this disparity. The first is that hurricanes in the northern hemisphere form at tropical and subtropical latitudes and then tend to move toward the west-northwest. In the Atlantic, such a motion often brings the hurricane into the vicinity of the East Coast of the U.S. In the Northeast Pacific, the same west-northwest track carries hurricanes farther offshore, well away from the U.S. West Coast.

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