Interesting quastion

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

With John moving up the Gulf of Califorina, it hit me that the Baja was once part of mainland mexico. With the two plates moving away from each other. Which this gulf is slowly growing. Inside this gulf is some of the hottest water in the eastern pacific.These two plates are the Pacific and north American plates...Also the reason for death valley to be so low is becaue of this. My quastion is as it widens it will make it more possible for cyclones to track up this gulf...In maybe even start to form in this gulf.

Some day we might even have systems forming in it...My quastion is how fast this is growing...In how long before this occurs...This could be a new tropical cyclone area.

[WindRunner]

Hmmm . . . it'll probably be at least a few hundred thousand more years before a normal size TC can easily form in there, if not a few million years. I believe the general rate for plate movement is 2-3cm/year at most.

[wxmann_91]

Patience, grasshopper. In about a million years.

[NFLDART]

it does present an interesting question though