NOAA image reveales the world’s worst hit areas. (Composite image of storm tracks ) Title Modded

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 16 September 2013 | By Ellie Zolfagharifard

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Last month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration charted the 11,967 tropical cyclones that have occurred on Earth since records began. By colouring how many times any storm track overlapped another, certain patterns arise in the density of storms affecting a given area. Cyclone tracks overlapped the most in the western Pacific and Bay of Bengal. The frequency of track overlaps is much lower in the Western Hemisphere

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Full Title of article at the Daily Mail:

A rare moment of calm on Earth: Stunning satellite image reveals strangely clear skies above the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean

But I found the composite Image more interesting.!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[BitWielder1]

How come there are no storm tracks west and east of South America?
I would have thought the same mechanism would be at work there as in north Pacific, Atlantic and the South Indian Ocean.

[cripplecreek]

I think the southern oceans and atmosphere tend to be a bit cooler due to the lack of land masses south of the equator. That probably has something to do with it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Interesting question...but maybe Climate Change isn’t so active due to peioples activities down there....?/s

[Chances Are]

Don’t they have storms on the West coast of South America?

CA....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Apparently not Tropical cyclones.

They do have nasty Earthquakes.

[KarlInOhio]

This just proves my theory: Mother Nature hates Bangladesh.

[brityank]

Basically, because there is little land area to concentrate the warmth of the Sunlight to drive the formation of the only valid “Green House Gas” = Water Vapor H2O. Willis Eschenbach at WUWT has a good explanation of the actions involved:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/21/dehumidifying-the-tropics/

Enjoy!

[justa-hairyape]

How come there are no storm tracks west and east of South America?

Notice that there are no hurricane tracks through the center equatorial region (about +- 8 degrees latitude north and south). Funny that. Where it is hottest, there are no hurricanes. The lack of equatorial hurricanes means that a significant part of the South American land mass, is located where no hurricanes form.

[BitWielder1]

I get why there are very few hurricane near the equator: Lack of Coriolis effect.
Further south, I would expect at least some hurricanes to form, compare with the opposite hemisphere with just as much open water.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yet more evidence Bangladesh is the armpit of the world....