Thank you for these threads.
There is an aspect of these storms that interests me.
Tornadoes most often move in a North Easterly direction
These hurricanes most often move in a North Westerly direction
It is true that when they run into other fronts, they are turned East.
Does the weather in the Atlantic always move East > West like this?
I will defer to folks who are more meteorology savvy than me. I do know that tropical systems tend to go poleward—eventually.
The wind in the tropics generally goes from east to west (look up the trade winds) while in the temperate zone they go the other way. The tropics makes sense as the earth is turning eastward and the air isn’t quite dragged fast enough to keep up. I’ve never figured out the physics which get the temperate regions’ winds to move faster than earth’s rotation.
They move east to west in the Tropics because of the trade winds pushing them westward.
The Coriolis effect causes winds and storms to deflect to the right, which sends them northward.
As they travel north, they enter the prevailing southwesterlies and get guided to the east/northeast again.
Of course, all kinds of quirks can happen and have happened in the storm tracks especially in the Gulf but of you look at the historic storm tracks, they virtually all follow that general pattern.
It’s the same thing the old sailors used to use that made the slave trade and the sugar trade. Africa to the US. US to England. England back down to Africa. Follows the currents, too.