Hurricane Secrets May Be Revealed By African Thunderstorms
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Aug. 2, 2006

African thunderstorms may hold the key to figuring out why hurricanes form, scientists say.

Seven to ten times a month, a cluster of storms rolls off Africa's west coast and wends its way over the Atlantic Ocean toward the United States.

Hood is part of a team of U.S. and European scientists strategically positioned between continental Africa and the Caribbean to study why some of these thunderstorm clusters—called tropical waves—develop into hurricanes, while others fizzle out.

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