From: John Cuccia 

n Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:38:56 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:rle442dvqv01paecckph4k4v5sufsu01vn{at}4ax.com...
>
>> >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.
>
>So you support my position, that it's not based on heat level but on other
>factors?

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.

> 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?

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.

You have to compare our east coast to Asia's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Pacific_typhoon_season

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