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They came with Names like humans, Huricane Gustav, Ike etc. Where is their birth place?
There are three general areas where hurricanes form that affect North America.
The most frequent location is in the Atlantic Ocean, just west of Central
Africa.
The strong easterly winds that come off of Africa help to destabilize the air
sufficiently for convection to occur over the warm tropical Atlantic Ocean.
This convection becomes more organized into thunderstorms, supercells
(mesocyclones), and then finally into a tropical depression, then a tropical storm, and then a hurricane. The hurricane drifts slowly westward towards
the Caribbean and sometimes into the Gulf of Mexico (where landfall is made in
Central America or the gulf coast of Mexico or the United States)
or it curves northward to hit or miss the eastern coast of the United States.
Here are the most common places for hurricanes to develop in the Atlantic Basin, Cape Verde Islands, Western Caribbean and the Gulf Of Mexico

The only question left in my mind is WHY NORTH AMERICA

Lambert,
I don't seem to see enough climatological facts in your comments to prove that it should have been south america instead..or somewhere else
so my question is...why not North America (and if you still insist, where should it have been....well obviously not from it's source since it picks up momentum with time and speed)

That's pretty scary and I think many people died after hurricane hit because I didn't actually know about that news so I'm just thinking. I've heard of hurricane and the famous of them is cathrina that strikes in a particular city near in north american and many people are affected to that.

spoken20...
do you take time to read the opinion you make comment's on?