Why are there Two Hurricane Models, the European Model and the American Model when physics and statistics are the same everywhere?

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Why are there Two Hurricane Models, the European Model and the American Model when physics and statistics are the same everywhere?

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Because they can neither perfectly observe nor perfectly model the physics, so both are based on the statistics with broad, approximate strokes of physics mostly informing which batches of statistics to look at.

Because there are differences in the physics of different areas, the models derived largely for those areas will differ in order to be most predictive.