Why Hurricanes Cut Like a Knife in Ecuador

Among the hurricanes ever recorded, Ecuador Even the closest hurricane was 150 km away. I mean, let alone a hurricane forming in Ecuador, they can’t even come close to it.

So why It was as if there was a divine power in Ecuador and hurricanes could not approach. Is there such a situation? Of course, science explains this too.

Let’s start from the basics. What is a hurricane?

Hurricanes, also called “tropical cyclones”; large scale, violent, spinning at more than 118 km per hour tropical winds blowing. They thrive on warm, moist air and usually occur in tropical seas where the water is above 26 degrees.

To understand why hurricanes cannot form in the Ecuador, we first need to understand how they form.

Hot water raises water vapor in the atmosphere, and the evaporated water creates dense humidity in the atmosphere. This moisture is combined with warm air and the rise of water vapor. Hot, humid weather; It rises from the water surface and cools as it rises through the atmosphere. Thus, the air mass expands and rises.

As warm air rises, low pressure areas form in the area below. This creates a “void” that draws in surrounding air. The direction of the wind and the rotation of the hurricane, It is determined by the “Coriolis force”, which is the rotation of an object caused by the rotation of the Earth.

In the Northern Hemisphere, Earth’s rotation causes air to be pulled counterclockwise, resulting in hurricanes. counterclockwise causes it to rotate. In the Southern Hemisphere, the opposite happens. So it rotates clockwise.

So why do they so rarely approach the Equator and never pass it?

Although they form in warm tropical waters, hurricanes rarely form even within 300 kilometers of the Equator. in 2003 Typhoon Vameiwas spotted 150 kilometers north of the Equator, something that could happen once in 100 years.

Hurricanes; They do not form near the equator because there is no “Coriolis force” that occurs as a result of the rotation of the Earth. Since there is no slope, the “Coriolis force” is also zero. This way, stormy weather can’t turn into a hurricane. Likewise, we don’t see hurricanes crossing the Equator because that means hurricanes must stop spinning, change direction, and turn the other way to continue.

Hypothetically, it might be possible for a hurricane to surpass this. A violent storm, weak”It continues its acceleration on the “Coriolis force” and It may be powerful enough to advance towards the Equator, but there has never been one before.

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