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[hurricanedude]

Hurricanes are natures way of releasing heat and and energy from the tropical waters correct? If that is the case, and this is the year without a hurricane and nothing more than a few short lived tropical storms, than that would lead one to think the heat and energy will remain....assuming the above statement is true, then (HERE IS THE QUESTION) would it be possible that come late fall into winter that some of the "winter hurricanes" AKA Nor Easters could tap into the so called "virgin" waters and help them explode more so than usual? I mean the energy and heat has to be released eventually.

[WeatherWiseGuy]

My thinking is that the warm air is going to eventually make its way to the arctic region one way or another, perhaps more slowly than a hurricane moves a quantity of warm air. Whether or not it would make a difference with mid-latitude winter storms I can't begin to say, but it is an interesting question.

[Aric Dunn]

Hurricanes are natures way of releasing heat and and energy from the tropical waters correct? If that is the case, and this is the year without a hurricane and nothing more than a few short lived tropical storms, than that would lead one to think the heat and energy will remain....assuming the above statement is true, then (HERE IS THE QUESTION) would it be possible that come late fall into winter that some of the "winter hurricanes" AKA Nor Easters could tap into the so called "virgin" waters and help them explode more so than usual? I mean the energy and heat has to be released eventually.

technically thats a apart of the dynamics of the atmosphere. everything transfers heat so the water is not going to just stay like that. there will be large cold systems that drop down in the central atlantic and mix things up. big cycle but good question.

[USTropics]

Just to add to this discussion, Aric is absolutely on point that it involves a very complex cycle, and numerous mechanisms are in play. Not to get too technical, but one of the first courses in Meteorology that I took went into depth on the release of heat by the earth as a whole. While the earth absorbs radiation and heat throughout the day, at night the earth radiates some of this heat back to the solar system. This makes up a huge part of why we see DMIN and DMAX.

So in essence, latent heat is a major ingredient that these storms need to develop and strengthen, but there are other mechanisms that can alleviate/release this energy without the presence of tropical systems.

[chaser1]

Hurricanes are natures way of releasing heat and and energy from the tropical waters correct? If that is the case, and this is the year without a hurricane and nothing more than a few short lived tropical storms, than that would lead one to think the heat and energy will remain....assuming the above statement is true, then (HERE IS THE QUESTION) would it be possible that come late fall into winter that some of the "winter hurricanes" AKA Nor Easters could tap into the so called "virgin" waters and help them explode more so than usual? I mean the energy and heat has to be released eventually.

In a nutshell, Yes