What causes hurricanes to occur in certain seasons?
Every year, about ten hurricanes are born above the Atlantic near the West Indies. They move westward and some of them turn north, ripping paths of destruction through New England. Luckily, the season for these East Coast hurricanes lasts only six months, from June through November. Hurricanes breed only in certain regions above tropical oceans. And each breeding ground has a limited season. The world’s worst hurricane hatchery is in the mid Pacific, between the Philippines and the Marshall Islands. From here, the wild storms rage westward to touch the China coast, then north towards Japan. There is another hatchery off western Mexico and another in the Indian Ocean. The southern hemisphere also has its share. There is a hurricane hatchery off northern Australia, another in the southern Indian Ocean and another in the South Pacific Ocean. There are eight of these regions. Our damaging hurricanes are born in the Atlantic, near the West Indies or as far away as the bulging coast of Afric
