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Speaker 1: And why do they follow such peculiar tracks. Hurricanes that

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Speaker 1: over the Atlantic near the equator, hurricanes are pushed toward

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Speaker 1: the United States by trade winds. Trade winds are very

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Speaker 1: consistent westward wind ends near the equator. Once the storm

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Speaker 1: rises up towards twenty five or thirty degrees latitude. The

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Speaker 1: the trade winds are no longer a factor, and local

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Speaker 1: weather over the United States has a big influence. Winds

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Speaker 1: along the East Coast tend to blow in a north

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Speaker 1: or northeast direction, and there's also the eastward blowing jet stream.

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Speaker 1: The northern winds often cause a storm to make a

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Speaker 1: sudden right hand turn and track right up the east coast.

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Speaker 1: The jet stream can cause storms to approach the east

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Speaker 1: coast and then back off. Any number of fronts or

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Speaker 1: pressure zones may be in place over the United States

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Speaker 1: as the hurricane comes in, and these systems have their

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Speaker 1: own winds and can influence a hurricane as well. If

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Speaker 1: a storm tracks from the west and doesn't get far

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Speaker 1: enough north to lose the effect of the trade winds,

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Speaker 1: it will instead continue westward into the Gulf of Mexico

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Speaker 1: with those trade winds and land in Texas or Mexico.

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