On 7/3/2012 7:22 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Leon wrote:
On 7/2/2012 2:25 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Leon wrote:


Now the sun certainly warms the waters considerably and has to warm
the water to at least 80 degrees to a depth of 150 feet to even form
and sustain a hurricane. Nothing man is doing will come close to
doing that.

80 degrees, but not to a depth of 150 feet. That would be very
difficult, even for the sun. It does not penetrate water that far,
and the masses of cold water underneath the surface water (at 80
degrees), would overwhelm it and cool it significantly at 150 feet.



Yes 150 feet!

http://suite101.com/article/how-do-h...s-form-a132343

I believe that means the water has to be at least 150 deep - not that the
temperature is 80 degrees to a depth of 150 feet.


Nope temperature that is 80 degrees 150 feet. Living in hurricane alley
this is hammered into our heads every summer.


Think convection currents mixing the surface water with the deeper
water. A hurricane has to have the 80 degree water temperatures to
exist. There is an enormous amount of water vapor and heat that is
lifted from the surface. If the 80 degree temperatures were not 150
feet deep the water would soon cool and the hurricane would be no more.

This also probably explains why the bigger and more frequent hurricanes
typically happen in September after the long how summers have had time
to heat the oceans to those 150 foot depths.