Why Do Hurricanes Hit Florida So Often
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Hurricanes can only form over warm ocean water, there are storms which have their origins off the coast of west Africa and then move across the Atlantic getting more powerful and then are deflected up the East coast of America normally bumping into Florida where they lose power over land. https://youtu.be/VWCVohW5mD8
They hit often? They usually go on by and head towards Texas or Louisiana. Florida has some of the worse afternoon thunderstorms ever seen. Clashing of air pressure from the gulf and Atlantic. Creates storms that laugh at hurricanes.
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This may require a lot of scientific background to properly explain.
In somewhat scientific terms, equatorial Atlantic winds tend to blow northwest. Coincidentally, this means towards Florida. Warmer waters mean higher evaporation, which means larger clouds and thus larger storms. Warm waters and air provide fuel for the approaching storm. So you have a storm building over time and being blown on a collision course with the main land.
Explain as if 5: it’s like a snowball building up over time as it rolls down the hill. It’s coincidental that Florida is at the bottom of this hill.
Florida is surrounded by warm watwe, aka hurricane fuel. Unlike most coastal states, it can get hit from east or west. It’s also a big/long state with a very long shoreline, so there’s a lot of places for storms to make landfall.
The wind generally moves east to west at the equator in the Atlantic.
Rain clouds from over warm water.
The water is warm at the equator.
Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa seed rain clouds in the Atlantic Ocean just off the African coast.
Hurricanes are big rain clouds that form over a large body of water like the Atlantic Ocean.
The hurricane typically follows the prevailing winds.
The hurricanes start out by Africa and blow west to the Caribbean region.
Winds and hurricanes try to avoid land when they can.
Florida kinda abruptly juts out into what would be open ocean.
So sometimes when a hurricane follows the wind it can’t make tight turns and runs into Florida straight from the east Atlantic.
Sometimes it goes straight into the Caribbean, just missing Florida, but since the wind currents don’t like land they try to avoid Mexico and the southern United States and start turning away from those land masses.
But since Florida juts out into what would be the ocean, the hurricane has a hard time missing it when it turns around in the gulf of Mexico and tries to go back out to sea.
So Florida kinda gets two opportunities to get targeted, once directly from the Atlantic side, and once more when the hurricane sometimes turns around in the Caribbean.
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