7/12/2023 0 Comments The 5th wave sparknotes![]() ![]() ![]() This can be due to a number of factors, including blasts of dry, stable air from the Saharan desert, strong upper-level westerly winds, or a lack of the necessary atmospheric “spin” needed to generate a counterclockwise circulation. Such disturbances move off the African coast every few days during August and September, however, most of them fail to develop into tropical cyclones. Like many of the most notorious Atlantic hurricanes, Irma began as a weak wave of low pressure accompanied by disorganized showers and thunderstorms which emerged off the west African coast on August 27 th, near the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season (Fig. Hurricane Irma was a classic Cape Verde hurricane that will long be remembered for its severity and wide-ranging impacts to several islands in the Caribbean Sea and Florida.
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