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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And here I thought this was going to be a debate about the early history of meteorological forecasting, and the issues between the U.S. and Cuba in the late 1800s/early 1900s carrying on through today… silly me.

But here’s a corollary question – the U.S. traditionally flies into hurricanes to gather data, which is then applied to the spaghetti models. Do European models gather their own data in similar fashion or take that data into account (i.e., is it shared with European weather agencies? I’d like to think so, but you know what they say about assuming…). Wondering if this is a contributing factor to the differences as well.