From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:47:20 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>Simply put, more heat doesn't mean more violent weather, compare the
>southeast or gulf coast to the west coast at the same lattitude, you get
>more hurricanes in florida than you do on the west coast at the same
>longitude.

That's because in the northern hemisphere, tropical cyclones move from east
to west.  Atlantic hurricanes start off as low pressure systems in the
Atlantic (even the far eastern Atlantic) and move in a generally westerly
direction.  Pacific hurricanes form in the ocean and move west through the
Pacific.  Those that do make landfall do so in one of the island
archipelagos or Southeast Asia or Australia.

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