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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can someone smarter than me explain why South America is seemingly immune to hurricanes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Rainy season in Northern Africa has a lot of land to form storms from sand as cloud seeds. Gulf and Carribean sea are almost always hot in summer. Relatively shallow. Northern South America also has rainy season and helps form storms that go north.

South America doesn't get as much help from Africa storm formation, and south atlantic does not have a history of being very hot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I also want to know this.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/why-do-hurricanes-not-hit-south-america/

According to this, TL;DR- South America is further from the swirling warm winds of the topics than it looks, and the ocean temperatures are colder compared to the hurricane prone areas too due to how the oceanic currents work.