STORMS ALL AROUND THE WORLD--INCLUDING THE OCEANS.
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over the ocean it is hard to find out how many waterspouts (the correct term of tornadoes over water) form.  Tornadoes in the US turn out to be about 300, hurricanes/ tropical storms worldwide is about 100,  thunderstorms happen each day all over the world so it is hard to keep count.  Even us meteorologist have a hard time trying to predict hot spots for hurricane formation, it was a shock that Hurricane ivan came 8o lat, from the equator, becuase they need what is called the corriolis force to exist, near the equator the force is =0 so even we have a hard time keeping count, as well as predicting them.
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Oceans: Indian, Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, and few lakes and seas (Dead Sea)
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whal.. er, I mean hurricanes
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Good Lord... anywhere... America, Austrailia, Russia (did you know that snow reflects sun wonderfully?), Holland, Sweden, Norway... the list goes on....
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Latitude, Ocean currents, Winds, Elevation, Relief and Nearness to water.
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Only here in the temperate zone. The wind blows the right way near the poles and the equator.
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You can thank the upper-air weather pattern for all the rain. I'm a storm chaser from Texas and these blocked patterns (upper ridge over the Rockies and upper trough over the Atlantic states) spell disaster for us looking for tornadoes across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. We constantly stay dry, and you guys constantly stay wet. Until the pattern changes to a more traditional West to East flow and can kick these blocked troughs / ridges out of here, we're in for more of the same.
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No, mother nature is mother nature. Storms have always been a part of the climate. Earthquakes because the Teutonic plates shift. Tornado's by severe storms. Why would you assume that God would be out to get us? He created everything( if that is your belief) so it follows that He created the weather too.
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it sounds like you're talking about global warming. it's very likely that the oceans will rise significantly and that the coastline of all the continents and islands is gonna change considerably. the latest I've heard is not 3' in the next 30 years but maybe 1'.
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Currents flow in complex patterns affected by wind, the water's salinity and heat content, bottom topography, and the earth's rotation.
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Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico...some in Florida;)
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Riders on the Storm. Sw33t.
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Listening to thunder storms is actually one of my favorite ways of relaxing. I always open all the doors and windows during a thunder storm so i can hear it and not get wet.
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most southern facing beaches receive their high surf from storm off of Baja.  I doubt there would have been enough bounce from the Alaska storms.
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Yeah, theres:  Wind storm\n                        Dust storm\n                        Lightning storm\n                        Snow storm\n                        Hail storm\n  Hee hee, just kidding sweetie, and no, I do not know who avery storm is, sorry.
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Very little sadly.  Besides not building coastal communities there is very little we can do to avoid the damages caused by such events.  Some tsunami walls will help, but at a certain class of typhoon even those won't help.
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From a meteorological standpoint:\n\ncyclone- A broad word used for any system in which a large volume of air rotates about an area of low pressure. In the Northern Hemisphere, cyclones (usually) rotate counter-clockwise, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Most the storms below are examples of types of cyclones.\n\nhurricane/typhoon- these are actually, from a weather standpoint identical storms. They are called hurricanes in the North Atlantic and in the Pacific east of the International Dateline. They are called typhoons in the west Pacific. They are also called something else in other basins. What makes a hurricane a hurricane isn't just winds greater than 74 miles an hour, what makes it a hurricane is that it is a cyclone which develops over water and receives its energy from the heat of condensation. \n\ntornado- a rotating column of air spinning around a vortex both in contact with the surface and a cloud base.A tornado is a violent type of cyclone usually associated with other cyclones, fronts, or thunderstorms. In the US, the worst tornadoes are associated with mesocyclones (large rotating storms). Florida gets a lot of tornadoes due to the "pop-up" thunderstorms it gets in the summer. Tornadoes often occur associated with hurricanes (The instability in the air causes a lot of rotation in the air which cause tornadoes to form. If it doesn't touch the ground it is called a funnel cloud and technically, isn't a tornado.\n\ntwister- Simply a common word for tornado. I suppose some could say it is a word for the "classic" tornado shape- very thin cylinder. Not a scientific term.\n\nWhirlwind- Also called a dust devil, is like a small tornado, but usually without the usual trappings one would find associated with a tornado. With air, you can often get small pockets of low pressure which will simulate what happens in larger storms, but on a smaller scale. In deserts as the wind blows, you often get pockets of air which form these "mini" tornadoes which usually do no damage. You can even get similiar whirlwinds in downtown areas as the tall buildings change the natural flow of air, causing "mini-vacuums".\n\nMonsoon- Is a periodic, predictable wind, usually accompanied by storms/heavy rain. Usually found in areas with very well defined wet/dry seasons.\n\nA windstorm is a storm with very heavy winds but with little or no precipitation.