>
>All of the storms want to go north and then loop back east. Early
>season storms tend to go into the Gulf of Mexico and expend themselves
>over land in Mexico or the US. Later season storms start turning north
>earlier and earlier, some hitting the US east coast and some running up
>the Atlantic and turning east back toward Europe. Very few actually hit
>the UK but a lot of them try.
>
<<SNIP>>
This past Eastern Pacific hurricane season showed a troubling trend. Many
of the storms that were along the northern edge of the westward track turned to
the north before reaching Hawai'i, then continued turning to the northeast,
heading towards the Alaskan panhandle (Juneau, Sitka) and Vancouver Island.
The sea surface temperature in the northeastern Pacific was sufficiently higher
than normal to allow the storms to persist much longer than usual.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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