From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:49:47 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:1sk442l35j9773d74lc3pqvoi7ob4q89dr{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Where a storm makes landfall is certainly based on other factors.  I
>> thought that's what you were talking about, storms making landfall on
>> the west coast.
>
>Exactly, you have the sun heating both areas at the same rate but other
>factors cause storms and control where they go.

But that has nothing to do with intensity.  Pacific typhoons are just as
intense as Atlantic hurricanes and were just about as frequent last year.

>> > I mean I said it's not based on more heat and gave two examples at
>> >the same heat levels and you gave a bunch of non-heat reasons
for why one
>> >has violent storms and the other doesn't.
>>
>> Who says that one has more violent storms than the other?
>
>LA has earthquakes, Miami has hurricanes, it's general knowledge. Is that
>what you were asking?

No, I was asking where you get the info that Pacific typhoons are less
violent than Atlantic hurricanes.

>> You're trying to compare the Atlantic coastal areas (including the
>> Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) to the Pacific coast of North/Central
>> Amerca, but that's not an analogous situation.
>
>AH!! But it is as far as the amount of energy each absorbs from the sun.

Sure, but tropical cyclones move from east to west in the northern
hemisphere.  They start off the coast of Mexico, for example, and head into
the Pacific, just like the coast of Africa and head into the Atlantic.

In the northern hemisphere, you cannot compare the western Atlantic to the
eastern Pacific.  You have to compare it to the western Pacific.

Look at the link I included in my last message. You'll see no shortage of
Pacific tropical cyclones.

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