Your school is visiting a local bureau of the National Weather Service. A student asks a meteorologist why hurricanes do not form in the northern Atlantic Ocean. How can you expect the meteorologist to reply?

a. Wind patterns keep hurricanes from forming in the northern Atlantic
b. Hurricanes cannot form over ocean waters that are too shallow.
c. The waters in the northern Atlantic are too cold for hurricanes to form.
d.Hurricanes only form in areas that are close to land.