Why Do Hurricanes Hit Florida So Often
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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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