Why are there so many hurricanes in the US and not Europe ? ?

Question

why so many hurricanes hit the US coasts and not the French or British ?

Answer 1

Because you guys don't give them funny names.

Answer 2

because hurricanes are formed from the currents in that area.

also, they dont hit europe because they are not powerful and strong enough to cross the ocean.

Answer 3

look at  a world map most of europe is much farther north in much  deeper colder water

Answer 4

Obama FTW!!!

Answer 5

Water Temps are much cooler, over in the Europe area.

As over here temps are like mid 80s. Hurricanes needs warm water to feed off of, not cool water.. if they attempt to go to Europe, they'll die out.  

Answer 6

Read up on the currents and temperatures of the oceans and you will see how the difference in low and high pressure systems and winds also affect the weather of different regions on earth.

Answer 7

Because hurricanes are caused basically by the rapid combonation of warm and cold air. The US Coasts provide more ideal hurricane breeding weather than the French or British coasts. Starting from around Texas to Florida is the warmest areas and is also known as Hurricane Alley. Included in this region is Louisiana, Mississippi, New Orleans...

Hurricanes are intense low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall. Their source of energy is water vapor which is evaporated from the ocean surface. Water vapor is the "fuel" for the hurricanes because it releases the "latent heat of condensation" when it condenses to form clouds and rain, warming the surrounding air. (This heat energy was absorbed by the water vapor when it was evaporated from the warm ocean surface, cooling the ocean in the process.) Usually, the heat released in this way in tropical thunderstorms is carried away by wind shear, which blows the top off the thunderstorms. But when there is little wind shear, this heat can build up, causing low pressure to form. The low pressure causes wind to begin to spiral inward toward the center of the low. These winds help to evaporate even more water vapor from the ocean, spiraling inward toward the center, feeding more showers and thunderstorms, and warming the upper atmosphere still more. The showers and thunderstorms where all of this energy is released are usually organized into bands (sometimes called "rainbands" or "feeder bands"), as well as into an "eyewall" encircling the center of the storm. The eyewall is where the strongest winds occur, which encircle the warmest air, in the eye of the hurricane. This warmth in the eye is produced by sinking air, which sinks in response to rising air in the thunderstorms. The winds diminish rapidly moving from the eyewall to the inside of the relatively cloud-free eye, where calm winds can exist.