This time of year, a lot of eyes turn toward the tropics. Prediction models and forecasters carefully study the circulation of warm air way out in the middle of the ocean, playing careful attention to areas where conditions are right to allow these swirling breezes to coalesce into something more; something powerful and dangerous. Warm ocean waters and prevailing trade winds get together to create cyclones and send them spinning off in different directions. Some build only halfway and fall apart entirely over the water, unnamed and unnoticed by the watchers and their computer models. Some build and keep building into incredibly destructive forces of nature, only to be blocked from making landfall by some gracious oscillation of the continental weather patterns; the natural world gives and takes, seemingly on a whim.
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