They don’t go on forever otherwise the earth would be covered in them right?!
In: Planetary Science
They can only maintain their strength over the ocean and warm ocean water powers them. As soon as part of them are over land they lose power. When they are mostly over land they wind dies out.
Moving north over colder ocean water also weakens them.
The Pacific ones tend to get stronger since they have more warm ocean water to develop with, but the Atlantic is getting really hot now.
They mostly happen in late summer and fall since the ocean water is warmer then. As the climate heats up hurricane season will definitely get longer, but it won’t be year round.
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