Europe doesn´t get hurricanes?

Question

I have never heard of hurricanes ( so frecuently ) on Europe.

I´m thinking on moving there. Cuz in my country (Dominican Republic)

we have a LOT OF HURRICANES. Hannah just passed by, but there is two more waiting ( Ike and Josephine )

I know there is countries in the U.S which get more hurricanes, but this is a third world country, i mean , i think Europe is a great choice.

What do you think?

Answer 1

There are reason why Europe gets very few hurricances.

1) Hurricance need HUGE bodies of WARM water to form.. Like an ocean near the equator in summer. The Mediterranean Ocean is not large enough to form a hurricane.

2) In the northern hemisphere, hurricanes form near the equator and move to the west/northwest.  Those hurricance that hit the Carribena, Southeat America, and Mexivo actually START off the west coast of Africa.

3) What all this means is that the geographical feautes that are southeast of Europe control the hurricanes.  Southeast of Europe is part of Africa and Saudi Arabia -- not a large, warm, ocean!  

Therefore, the only way a hurrican can hit Europe is if if forms near the west coast of Africa and curls almost due north.  Very rare.

Compilcating that is that if a hurricance DID do that, it would also have to go overy a great deal of cooler water, thus losing much of its energy.

The result is that it would have to be an extremely powerful storm, running in a rather strange path, in order for it to hit Europe..

So hurricanse in Europe are quite unusual.

However, winter storms based in the North Atlantic can be truly awsome when they hit Europe. Cold, wet, and nasty!  but I've never hear of anybody drowning in snow . . . .

But the whole U.S. is not bothered by hurricanes.  Hurricanes "die" as soon as the hit land.  They DO move inland, but after just a few miles they become "depressions", not hurricance.

Right now, what is left of Hurricane Gustav is in the Midwest -- over the state of Illinois.  Lots of rain, maybe some tornados, but it is definately NOT a hurricane.

Hurricanes are also very rare on the west coat of the United State, for the same reason they are rare in Europe.  And the "depressions" associated with "dead" hurricances are almost completely unknown in what is called the Northern Plains States, those state in the middle of America, just south of Canada.

Answer 2

Hurricanes happen more in the tropics. Europe is mostly in a temperate zone. But you can't just GO there - find out about immigration into the various countries of the European Union. There are also countries outside the Union, but most have harder immigration laws.

Good luck

Answer 3

England got it back in the 1980's. Check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Storm...

The tropical countries should be used to Hurricanes and build accordingly. If you want, you could legally immigrate to the US and live on the west coast, all they have is wild fires and earth quakes.