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North West? Like Portland and Seattle?

• dredmorbius 5y ago
  No. I'm not referring to portions of the US, but to segments of any given storm. Given counterclockwise rotation in of these storms in the northern hemisphere, and a westward track of tropical storms (see for example the 2020 North Atlantic Hurricane storm tracks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Atlantic_hurricane_season#/media/File%3A2020_Atlantic_hurricane_season_summary_map.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Atlantic_hurricane_season...): - Hurricanes will make landfall from the east or south. - Winds will tend to approach landfall from the east or south. - Most intense rain activity tends to be to the NE of the storm. (I'd miswritten this as NW above. I've corrected that in a follow-up self-reply.) Because of the westward storm track, hurricane landfalls on the West coast are exceedingly rare. They occasionally happen on the Pacific coast of Mexico or Baja California (about 19 or 20 storms between 1950 and 2000). By the time storms reach the latitude of Los Angeles they're subtropical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Baja_California_Peninsula_hurricanes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Baja_California_Penins... Most Eastern-Pacific hurricanes (that is, off the west coast of Mexico or the US) drift westward into the Pacific. Some strike Hawaii.