Not so much friction in low lying areas like the Yucatan - More the loss of ability to extract energy from water. It is the heat from the warm ocean water evaporating that gets released when the water rises in the exceptionally high cloud tops of a warm core storm that drives the engine. If a big chunk of the circulation sucking in the warm wet air is over land it is cutting off that fraction of its fuel.
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