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Hurricanes are tropical systems, which do not feature fronts. Fronts are associated with air mass boundaries, of which there are none in the tropics (the only air masses are tropical!). Mid-latitude cyclones feed on the energy generated by these boundaries, but hurricanes are very different animals. They feed primarily on latent heat generated from evaporating ocean water. There is a gray area when hurricanes move into higher latitudes and can transition into "extratropical cyclones", and can actually transition into more of a mid-latitude cyclone with fronts, but that is only when it moves out of the tropics.

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