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can hurricanes exist in mountainous regions?

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im very scared because there have been wind warnings ranging from 70-90 km/h

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A low pressure that generates wind to a hurricane force, which is defined as wind speed over 64 knots in the Beaufort scale, can happen anywhere, also in a mountainous region. But the hurricanes that are the tropical cyclones, being born west of the Cape Verde Islands when the sea temperature reaches over 27 C, are not going over any mountain. They feed on the warm and moist air of the Atlantic and once making landfall, they loose their energy.

A wind of 70 to 90 km/h is not very much. I once sailed in the Strait of Gibraltar in a 90 km/h wind in a tiny 25 feet gaff-rigged old Cornish sailboat. The problem was not the wind but the waves as the wind was against the current and the waves were enormous.
by: Michel Verheughe
on: 19th November 12

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