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To all the MET expads,
to my knowledge it requires a water tempereature of 26-27 degrees celsius to produce a hurricane.
Why doesn't it happen over the persian golf, where water is most of the time warmer than mentioned?
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to my knowledge it requires a water tempereature of 26-27 degrees celsius to produce a hurricane.
Why doesn't it happen over the persian golf, where water is most of the time warmer than mentioned?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane#Formation
Persian Golf isn't enough area of water to produce tropical cyclones
see also
(upper left part of the pic, you will notice that not far away in the northern Indian Ocean - west of India - you'll find some of them)
When these storms move over land or cooler areas of water they weaken rapidly.
see also
(upper left part of the pic, you will notice that not far away in the northern Indian Ocean - west of India - you'll find some of them)
