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Old September 25th 07, 07:43 PM posted to sci.geo.meteorology
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Default Why are there no/so few tropical cyclones east and west of SouthAmerica?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:27:27 +0300,
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+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:G...acks-edit2.jpg
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+ I find this to be really strange.


Not really. It will become obvious once you look at a map of average
SSTs for those regions. Ah, this may help (tho I particularly despise
the projection):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki_plot_03.png

Hint: there's lots of oceanic upwelling bringing up relatively cold
water by way of those eastern boundary currents.

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