11-22-2017, 03:08 AM
couple of the Atlantic storm systems seemed to make it over Central America
I watched the video again, and you're right, there were quite a number of weather events that passed through Mexico, west of the Yucatan Peninsula where the land mass is slightly narrower. I checked a map of Mexico, and that same location shows a break in the Central American mountain ranges there. The lower elevation combined with the narrower land area might create a pressure relief valve for weather systems, especially those in the Gulf of Mexico as they spin west. Must be windy there!
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
I watched the video again, and you're right, there were quite a number of weather events that passed through Mexico, west of the Yucatan Peninsula where the land mass is slightly narrower. I checked a map of Mexico, and that same location shows a break in the Central American mountain ranges there. The lower elevation combined with the narrower land area might create a pressure relief valve for weather systems, especially those in the Gulf of Mexico as they spin west. Must be windy there!
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
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