Thoughts - Questions About Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - A Digital File - see item details
From A Kid At Heart And A Muse - :)
I am a weather buff and an off the grid enthusiast. Since I was a kid, my dad and I always kept up with current events...local, national and international.
With recent events, I wonder and have...perhaps ridiculous questions concerning hurricanes, tropical depressions and storms occuring in the Gulf of Mexico as well as The Carribean Islands and more recently, occuring in The Atlantic Ocean.
Most tropical depressions/storms formed from Africa or The Bermuda Triangle. They travel in a west or northwestern direction...
In recent years, more tropical storms are turning towards the Atlantic Ocean regions.
Is it because the Antartica's melting ice attracts...feeding tropical depressions that eventually turn into hurricanes...,
Please excuse my confusion or lack of knowledge as to how they grow and within a few years ago head towards the Atlantic coastal regions...
When I was a kid, most hurricanes traveled through the Carribean Islands, then turn towards the Gulf of Mexico or Mexico.
Question: Does the content/characteristics of top soil/dirt around The Gulf of Mexico and Carribean Islands attract tropical storms?
Why do hurricanes/storms/depressions start around Africa or The Bermuda Triangle and travel in a westward (clockwise) pattern....when the rotation of the earth is counter clockwise?
Also, the contents/characteristics of soil/dirt in other regions of the USA...is it different than that of coastal regions?
Oil spills? Overload of trash in the ocean that washes to shore? Non bio-degradable items that were dumped that changed the contents of sand/dirt along the beach?
Question for those who have walked several different seashores around the world:
The smell of sand and the ocean...Does the air smell stronger in other places?
I've visited the Pacific coast, the English Channel, Mexico's coast several times and the northern part of South America....all in which I found a different smell of sand and fish.
To be continued...
Esther Monsalve
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