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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The form above 10^* lattitude. Their natural direction is to go straight towards their respective poles, but high pressure systems steer them with the trade winds. Extremely rare for a storm to even go slightly towards the equator

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Massive if true.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Philippines truly drew the short straw here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Getting hammered.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm digging that one hurricane in south America that looks lost.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Ole, "wrong-way Carlos"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Huh, it looks like the hurricanes seem to move in a mostly east-west direction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🎶ECUADOR! 🎶

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A yo mama joke that only works with this context:

Yo momma's ass so fat, no hurricane dares to cross her ass crack.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think a better question is why are the northern hemisphere hurricanes so much more feathery and beautiful than those raggedy ass southern hemisphere hurricanes and tropical storms.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Because there are way more in the northern hemisphere I assume ? Probably due to greater differential between water and air temp in general in the northern hemisphere due to currents and shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh man, I didn't realize that Oman got hit by tropical storms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

it's wild to think that we here in the nordics are apparently less safe from them than people in most of africa are!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's because when they cross the equator they become cyclones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Atlantic Ocean = Hurricane Pacific Ocean = Typhoon Indian Ocean = Cyclone

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im certain that’s because of tornado related physics and things. 👍

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's because they rotate in different direction in the northern and Southern hemisphere.

So crossing would imply switching direction, which would require to put that energy "somewhere" and it's physically not possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. It's because the earth spins faster there. Them turning a certain direction is a result, not a cause.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A) The Earth spins at the same speed. What you are talking about is the tangential speed.

B) The tangential speed is not much faster at the equator than 100km South or North of it.

C) The speed difference would not explain why they don't cross the equator. It may explain (partially) why there are no hurricanes further away from the equator.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love it when people use bulletpoints to seem smart when they are so confidently wrong

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering that I did not use bullet points, I guess you are talking about yourself 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For someone being so hyper pedantic you failed to realize they didn't use anything even close to bullet points.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow! Tough crowd. Seriously, at least I explained my reasoning for why hurricanes do not cross the equator. All they did was make either wrong or poorly formulated claims without any kind of explanation, and then throw insults.

Saying that "The Earth spins faster" makes no sense, especially in this context: why would the equator spin significantly faster than 100km away from it?!? And why would this negligible speed difference prevent hurricane from crossing that line?

If you want to correct someone, at least do it right.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want to correct someone, don't view it as an intellectual pissing match. You knew exactly what they meant.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course I knew what they meant, since I explained why I did not agree with their reasoning (point B in my answer).

Since this moment, you 2 have only been aggressive without contributing to the exchange.

I also tried to diffuse the emotions with humor ("Tough crowd", as if it was a comedy show). I've explained -again- why I didn't agree with their reasoning to go back to the topic.

And your answer double downs on agressivity... I'm out ✌️

In any case, you seem to have a lot of anger to pick up that kind of fight. Take care, buddy 🍀

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now you're tone policing. Just accept the critique of your pedantry and move on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

You're just proving my point 😘 Take care 🍀

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can someone smarter than me explain why South America is seemingly immune to hurricanes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Rainy season in Northern Africa has a lot of land to form storms from sand as cloud seeds. Gulf and Carribean sea are almost always hot in summer. Relatively shallow. Northern South America also has rainy season and helps form storms that go north.

South America doesn't get as much help from Africa storm formation, and south atlantic does not have a history of being very hot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/why-do-hurricanes-not-hit-south-america/

According to this, TL;DR- South America is further from the swirling warm winds of topics than it looks, and the ocean temperatures are colder compared to the hurricane prone areas too due to how the oceanic currents work.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That one little fella in South America - must have been confusing as fuck for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Poor thing. It set off and realized it was lost.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the only one Brazil ever recognized as a hurricane. But it's believed that they happen every once in a while, they are just not classified correctly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why wasn't it recognised as a cyclone? Was it spinning backwards?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

As a hurricane, not as a cyclone. There's a minimum intensity necessary to get classified as a hurricane.

(I've written cyclone by mistake, and changed the comment. You may be reading an older version of it.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Interesting that the western Pacific seems to have so many more category 5 than the Atlantic, and while the South Pacific and Indian Ocean have plenty, the South Atlantic has basically none.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago
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