This has been an active hurricane season in the United States. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose have batted Texas, Florida and the American territory of Puerto Rico. Across the pond, the United Kingdom has experienced zero, and in fact they never do. This is because hurricanes are formed because of low pressure over tropical waters which is nothing like the British seaside. The UK will sometimes see the aftermath but to qualify as a hurricane wind must be sustained at 74mph, and Britain is too far for a storm to sustain that much power for that long.

Key Takeaways:

• Hurricanes have been devastating to the United States recently, especially during Hurricane Harvey in Houston Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida, but the UK doesn’t get hurricanes often.
• The UK doesn’t experience hurricanes due to its location and distance from the warm tropical weather, but the UK does occasionally experience conditions from the aftermath of these hurricanes.
• The extreme storms in the UK resulting from these hurricanes have been rare, but deadly, as seen in 2014 after Hurricane Gonzalo and in The Great Storm of 1987.

“Hurricanes don’t often hit the UK because they’re created over warm tropical oceans, which, if you’ve ever gone to the British seaside, you’ll know we’re nowhere near.”

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