What oceans and seas do hurricanes are most likely to form?

Answer 1

Tropical cyclones (the generic terms for storms such as hurricanes) are most often found in the tropical parts of the western Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean in the northern Hemisphere, and the western Pacific and Indian Oceans in both hemispheres and attached seas including the Caribbean Sea, the South China Sea, The Philippine Sea, the East China Sea, and the Coral Sea.

However, such storms are only called hurricanes if the occur in the Atlantic Basin (including the Caribbean) or eastern Pacific Basin,

Answer 2

There are six widely accepted conditions for hurricane development. The first condition is that ocean waters must be above 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Fahrenheit). The second ingredient is distance from the equator. Without the spin of the earth and the resulting Corioles force, hurricanes would not form. Since the Corioles force is at a maximum at the poles and a minimum at the equator, hurricanes can not form within 5 degrees latitude of the equator. The thirdingredient is that of a saturated lapse rate gradient near the center of rotation of the storm. A saturated lapse rate insures latent heat will be released at a maximum rate. Hurricanes are warm core storms. The heat hurricanes generate is from the condensation of water vapor as it convectively rises around the eye wall. The lapse rate must be unstable around the eyewall to insure rising parcels of air will continue to rise and condense water vapor. The fourth and one of the most important ingredients is that of a low vertical wind shear, especially in the upper level of the atmosphere. Wind shear is a change in wind speed with height. Strong upper level winds destroy the storms structure by displacing the warm temperatures above the eye and limiting the vertical accent of air parcels. The fifth ingredient is high relative humidity values from the surface to the mid levels of the atmosphere. Dry air in the mid levels of the atmosphere impedes hurricane development in two ways. The sixthingredient is that of a tropical wave. Often hurricanes in the Atlantic begin as a thunderstorm complex that moves off the coast of Africa. It becomes what is known as a mid-tropospheric wave. If this wave encounters favorable conditions such as stated in the first five ingredients, it will amplify and evolve into a tropical storm or hurricane.

Answer 3

In a equitorial tropical ocean. Usually from the Atlantic ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. A typhoon is formed in the Pacific ocean

Answer 4

Hurricanes form over the Atlantic ocean, mainly in the united states.

Answer 5

Warm seas with a warm air updraft.

Answer 6

in tropical oceans

Answer 7

thunderstorms only occur in warm weather