Why is the Gulf of Mexico prone to hurricanes?

A hurricane must meet the following conditions: 1. The vast sea II. Unstable atmosphere with hot top and cold bottom 3. Rich in water vapor 4. There is a geostrophic bias in this area. The Gulf of Mexico has a vast ocean surface, located in the subtropical zone, where the temperature is relatively high, the evaporation is large, the water vapor is rich, and the geostrophic bias is prone to unstable atmospheric knots with low heat and low cold! So more!

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Supplementary answer: the force acting on the moving air due to the earth's rotation is called geostrophic bias, which is referred to as bias for short. It only happens when the object moves relative to the ground (it doesn't actually exist), and it can only change the direction of the object's movement (horizontal movement), but can't change the speed of the object's movement. The geostrophic force can be divided into two components: horizontal geostrophic force and vertical geostrophic force. Because the ground plane on the equator rotates around an axis parallel to the plane, the geostrophic force generated by the horizontal movement of air relative to the ground plane is in the plane perpendicular to the ground plane, so there is only vertical geostrophic force, but no horizontal geostrophic force. Because the polar ground plane rotates around the axis perpendicular to the plane, the geostrophic force generated by the horizontal movement of air relative to the ground plane is located on the same horizontal plane perpendicular to the rotation axis, so there is only horizontal geostrophic force, not vertical geostrophic force. At the latitude between the equator and the polar regions, the ground plane rotates around an axis parallel to the earth axis, which is at an angle to the horizontal plane. There are rotation components parallel to the ground plane and perpendicular to the ground plane, so there are vertical and horizontal deflections.