Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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Being hurricane season and all, I've decided to ask a couple of basic hurricane questions to get everyone thinking physically about hurricanes and perhaps to answer some questions people generally have about hurricanes.
The question is the following: Hurricanes don't form from 0 to 10 degrees latitude no matter how warm the water is at this latitude and believe me it is usually plenty warm enough to sustain a hurricane in the summer. Why don't they form close to the equator?
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Is it perhaps because there's not enough difference in the motion of various parts to make them spin?
After all - hurricanes spin because of the rotation of the Earth, and cyclones (ie in the S. hemisphere) spin the opposite way.
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