Why Poland Will Never See a Hurricane | RainViewer Blog

TL;DR: A hurricane has hard physical requirements that Poland cannot meet, however violent local storms become. A tropical cyclone needs water at 26.5 C (80 F) or warmer, down to about fifty metres (165 feet) The Baltic never comes close to that threshold, even in the warmest summers Polish storms are convective: they run on heated ground, not on ocean heat Ex-hurricanes reaching Europe lose the eye and eyewall through extratropical transition Both share one ingredient, the updraft, at completely different scales A hurricane needs a very specific set of conditions that Poland will never be abl