GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Warmer water evaporates, and hurricanes form when the warm, moist air encounters the cooler air in the atmosphere. This evaporation can cause low pressure systems, creating the wind and circular motion needed for a hurricane. These conditions are most likely near the equator.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tropical cyclones are like giant engines that use warm, moist air as fuel. That is why they form only over warm ocean waters near the equator.

Detailed explanation-3: -They occur mainly between 10 and 20 degrees north or south of the equator and are the product of tropical low pressure systems over warm water (plus a few other factors too complex to mention here). The direction the winds flow around a cyclone (and in fact any weather system) is determined by the Coriolis effect.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hurricanes begin to form near the tropics, in the Caribbean or in the waters around the Cape Verdean islands of West Africa. Relatively warm surface water evaporates rapidly and then condenses in the atmosphere to form clouds. Moist air rises to saturation and a weather system known as a tropical depression forms.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tropical cyclones forming between 5 and 30 degrees North latitude typically move toward the west. Sometimes the winds in the middle and upper levels of the atmosphere change and steer the cyclone toward the north and northwest. When tropical cyclones reach latitudes near 30 degrees North, they often move northeast.