The other day in Muster, I informed the entire school body that, "hurricanes are formed over Africa". Later in the day, one of our teachers with a great name approached me with several print outs bearing the information that hurricanes are formed over the coast off of Africa. I went onto Google and several pages into my search, I found what I was looking for, a video  showing the formation of Hurricane Isabel over the mountains and deserts of East Africa.

http://weather.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=weather&cdn=...

At the 1:19 point of the video, it makes the African connection. This is one of the wonderful reasons to work in a school like ours: there are so many bright, educated people concentrated in one place with whom I can have fascinating conversations on a regular basis. 

This URL from About.com also mentions the African orgin of hurricanes and provides links to other interesting hurricane videos: http://weather.about.com/od/hurricanes/tp/videohurricane.htm

This URL has the best written desciption:    http://weather.about.com/od/hurricane1/a/saharahurricane.htm

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