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Cool view of all tropical storms over the last 100 years (o.mastodon.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Omitting Hurricane Catarina - the only hurricane on record in the South Atlantic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Catarina

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was wondering why South America and Atlantic southern Africa lucked out so much.

Typically, tropical cyclones do not form in the South Atlantic Ocean, due to strong upper-level shear, cool water temperatures, and the lack of a convergence zone of convection.

Now I'm going to go down a rabbit hole about why it's cold, I guess.