4.8 Other Basins

Since the advent of geostationary satellite imagery, observers have noticed disturbances with TC characteristics in the South Atlantic. Yet, no TCs have been officially recorded in this basin. Although the conditional stability of the region is favorable for TC formation, large vertical shear prohibits further development. The same reasoning applies to the central North Pacific. However, TCs frequently occur in this basin. Most of them are generated in the eastern North Pacific and then move westward into the western North Pacific.

As previously mentioned, TCs are observed in the eastern South Pacific as far east as 135W during El Nino years. Typically, however, the sea surface temperatures of the eastern South Pacific are too cold for TC formation to occur.

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