What island group spawns the largest Atlantic hurricanes?
Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.
The winner of this week’s Mindbender is Tony Kalish in Maryland who correctly identifies hurricane force storms in the western Pacific. There should be two answers to this question: In the northwester part of the Pacific the weather event known as a Hurricane in the Atlantic (and northern Pacific) are called “TYPHOONS”. In the southwestern part of the Pacific these storms are called “SEVERE TROPICAL CYCLONES”.
A little bit of weather trivia: hurricane was named after the Caribbean god of evil named “HURRICAN”… just sayin’
