http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/20 ... amei_x.htm
The technical paper on it:
http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/cpchang ... /vamei.htm
The JTWC report:
http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/atcr/200 ... age39.html
As Stacy Stewart notes in the AP article, the reason for the lack of Atlantic storms below 10N isn't lack of Coriolis, it's a lack of initiating low pressure that far south.
Other basins have storms fairly commonly to within 4 degrees of the Equator, though 1.5 degrees is pretty odd everywhere.
