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The US gulf coast and southern Atlantic coast border warm water from the tropics. This warm water provides the energy that power hurricanes. This energy comes from water vapor that evaporates from the warm water. Storm clusters that often roll off the coast of Africa serve as "seeds" that grow into hurricanes when they encounter this energy source. Hurricanes are cut off from this source of moisture once they hit land and rapidly lose strength. So hurricanes lose hurricane status before they can get very far inland. The waters of the Pacific and northern Atlantic coasts are too cold to support hurricanes.

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