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I keep hearing on the news that the hurricanes form from the warm water of the ocean. How many believe that to be correct? I don't think it is right.
 
I think B&D is funnin' us a bit. We manage to get hurricanes even in the absence of a nuclear reaction. And it seems a funny coincidence that they always form over warm water.
 
Those magnets again. Of course, why didn't I think of that? Why....with all that magnetic energy.....we could.....hmmmm
 
Why doesn't the water get cold then? If all that energy came from the water, it should be freezing. You never hear anyone saying how cold the water gets other than if it rains in it. I would say B&D is part right in that it comes from above. Hurricanes can still form in November after the water cools off.
 
That's only when you get cool air over warm water. It causes condensation. You can have all the evaporation into warm air that you want,but until cool air condenses it,nothing happens. Ask anybody near the Great Lakes about that. That's why we get so much snow in the winter and rain in the fall,but little in the summer unless it comes up from the south and doesn't pass over the cooler than air water here in lower Michigan.
 
Even in the tropics it takes a long time for an ocean to warm, which is why hurricanes don't form until about July; and oceans take a long time to cool in the tropics, which is why hurricanes still form in November. I suppose the water loses some warmth to the cooler air, but a hurricane isn't much compared to an ocean of water.
 
A hurricane is constantly moving over new water so the warm water is always there. Since the water temperature must be 80 deg down 100 ft or more and the fact that the storm is always turning up the sea also supplies a lot of warm water at its location.

A hurricane is directly affected by the water temperature and we can see this in some storms like katrina. This storm grew to a category 5 as it crossed the warmer gulf stream off the louisiana coast but fell down to a 4 as it approached the coast with cooler water.
 
Every thing I have heard on our local news says the oil spill will have little affect on a storm.
They claim the turning of the sea will supply access to the warm water; and the size of a storm is much greater than the spill it self.

Some people were asking if the oil is heating the water more in turn making the chance of a stronger storm. While most have side stepped the answer because they really do not know some have said it may.
 
A hurricane acts as a heat sink. It's mother nature's way of removing excess heat from the ocean waters.
 
Another question. I would think that the temp of the water each year gets to a couple degrees of what it was other years. Then why aren't the storms the same year after year? What was the water temp when Katrina formed? What is the temp when there are little or no hurricanes all summer?
 
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