Tropical cyclones (hurricanes/typhoons) form between roughly 5-20 degrees latitude, are absent at the equator (insufficient Coriolis force), are absent south of the equator in the Atlantic, and preferentially form over the WESTERN (not eastern) sides of oceans where warm water pools.
Tropical cyclones form mostly over the western parts of oceans, where warm surface waters accumulate (e.g., western Pacific, western Atlantic/Caribbean), not the eastern parts, which...
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