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Why doesn't the west coast get any hurricanes or tropical storms?

I've been living on the west coast for 18 years and had never had a problem with hurricane, but every fall the east coast always gets a storm.
gpt
We do get hurricanes, but they are farther south. If you are in Southern California, a lot of the tropical weather we get here in the late summer/early fall is the "left overs" of the hurricanes that peter out over land in Baja or the colder northern waters off the Californian coast. 

Hurricanes get their energy from warm waters. The reasons why hurricanes can reach so far North on the East Coast has to do the with the direction the oceanic currents run. 

As a (huge) generalization, the Northern hemispheric currents run clockwise due to the Coriolis force/effect due to Earth's Rotation. This means that warm water from the equator will run north on the "west side" of an ocean and south on the "east side" of the ocean. Ex: In the Pacific, the warm water currents run north from the equator up to Japan and the Korean penninsula up into the artic, where it cools down, then runs south passed Alaska and down the West Coast of the US where it then mixes with the warmer southern waters off the cost of Southern California and the Baja Peninsula. 

This is why you hear about typhoons hitting the SEA area and Japan which mimics the hurricanes that hit the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and the East Coast. 

In short, hurricanes and typhoons thrive on warm water. Warm water is near the equator, and currents run clockwise patterns. This means that you will have more warm water on the "left side" of an ocean and colder water from the Arctic on the "right side" of an ocean. This is opposite in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis force switching directions(Currents run counter clockwise).