Posted on 08/22/2020 10:16:24 AM PDT by Libloather
The United States could witness a rare “Fujiwhara effect” as two storm systems are expected to come in close proximity in the Gulf of Mexico next week.
All eyes are on the gulf coast as the 2020 hurricane season nears its most active month. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is currently tracking two storm systems. Tropical Depression Fourteen is moving northwestward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and is expected to develop into a named storm and reach hurricane strength. Tropical Storm Laura is moving toward the U.S. from the Atlantic, prompting warnings for the Northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico Friday morning.
While the intensity of Laura remains uncertain, the NHC currently projects both systems to slide into the gulf, nearing landfall around the same time - Tuesday to Wednesday. This unique situation has experts on the lookout for a Fujiwhara effect, which occurs when two systems in close proximity “orbit” each other, which can result in the stronger system absorbing the weaker storm.
The National Weather Service explains:
When two hurricanes spinning in the same direction pass close enough to each other, they begin an intense dance around their common center. If one hurricane is a lot stronger than the other, the smaller one will orbit it and eventually come crashing into its vortex to be absorbed. Two storms closer in strength can gravitate towards each other until they reach a common point and merge, or merely spin each other around for a while before shooting off on their own paths. But often, the effect is additive when hurricanes come together - we usually end up with one massive storm instead of two smaller ones.
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19-25 Storms
That's the prediction for the entire hurricane season.
XKCD #944
Title text: After exhausting the OED, we started numbering them. When overlapping hurricanes formed at all points on the Earth's surface, and our scheme was foiled by Cantor diagonalization, we just decided to name them all "Steve". Your local forecast tomorrow is "Steve". Good luck.
time until the left blaims this on global warming .. 3..2..1..
lol
Agreed, but I prefer it to other localities / seasons. I was born in Oklahoma and learned about tornados, smaller in size but more capricious and, if you get hit, worse than most hurricanes. I have lived in California where you can get flambé'd in fire season, tossed frequently but have a background fear of the big/BIG one! Go north from there and the Cascade Volcanos can make your day (into night)!
So I'll risk the hurricanes and pray they stay below 2. If the cone takes aim, I'll stock up and cover up. If it gets to 4, I'm packing up and looking for a direction. If it tracks Irma and is a 4+, well then I'll message my loved ones and kiss my tookhas goodbye!
“The Perfect Storm”
President Trump is today busy with his brother’s funeral. However, he needs to get ahead of the hurricane story by having the heads of FEMA, the armed forces, and other federal agencies in his office today presenting a very public face the federal government is mobilizing rapidly to be prepared for a disaster of epic proportions. No doubt the media and Democrats are salivating at the prospect of these hurricanes becoming Trump’s “Katrina”. Trump and his PR people need to be creating the narrative on this storm beginning today so the media spin won’t control the news cycle.
FEMA needs to be preparing for shelters with social distancing and masks. The media would love to see hundreds of people get COVID from being in government shelters where Trump didn’t take the proper precautions.
Hopefully Trump’s people are on it.
Got to be PDJTs fault.
He hired airplanes and seeded the clouds and had them fly around fast enough and when the storms hit simultaneously the clouds will spell out TRUMP 2020
He will do anything for attention.
I once got the ‘Fujiwhara Effect’ after eating a bad batch of clams. Not good.
I recall George Carlin as the Hippy Dippy Weatherman:
“Hurricane approaching. Radar also picked up two Soviet ICBM’s inbound. So I wouldn’t sweat the hurricane”
Sure enough we have tornadoes here but I am thrilled to no longer living near the Gulf Coast. Dealing with storms on a personal basis was bad enough but like so many others in the industry I had oil and gas production facilities and lost production to deal with.
We were 50 miles from Houston city center and at elevation 210 so we seldom saw anything but tornadoes, trees down, yard mess and power outages for a long time in sweltering heat. I usually sent the family far north and rode it out alone.
Being retired is good. Being retired away from the Gulf Coast is better.
This pair could prove to be a mess like we have not seen in a long time.
bttt
I’d bet decent money that your prediction is right. Trumps fault, global warming and colored people suffering will be repeated every 10 minutes during his convention.
metmom : " There goes gas prices."
True that , right over the Gulf rigs and both storms may shut down the distillation and processing plants.
It's pretty much a 'congo-bongo', or a one, two punch on the Gulf oil industry.
Time to gas up, .. and fill a spare tank; it's not just a concern about gas,
but also concern about electrical power for home , industry, and pumps.
‘Fujiwhara Effect’ is weatherman language for a rarely occurring storm sucker-punch,.. , especially if you are not prepared !!
Just in case 2020 didn’t suck enough.
That was a great movie. Watching it once was enough for me. Don’t need to see it again. Same with “The Passion of the Christ”.
Flood gates at Texas City refinery are closing today. I am off Monday. Preparing generator, and stocking up. Could be a big one but doubt it will be any worse than we are used to getting. I spent 4 days and nights in our flooded bard with our horses due to Harvey floods.. As long as t his one keeps moving we’re good. It’s when they stall that flooding gets real bad.
Lumber already went up and now maybe lots more. Lumber went way up after Andrew and never came back down.
Ping.
We live very close to Cedar Bayou close to a big ditch that runs into Cedar Bayou very close to Trinity bay. Our townhouse foundation is 2-3 feet above the ground level. Didn’t get a drop of water in our house during Harvey.
A big problem in SE Texas is there is really no place for the water to go if we get another storm even if it dumps only half the amount of rain in a short time period.
But are the hurricanes wearing masks?
Filled up at Costco yesterday morning...$1.69 a gallon.
They’re not hurricanes and not even be ar hurricane strength when they make landfall. It is somewhat doubtful Laura will even survive interaction with land before making the Gulf. And the two storms are different timings of making it through the Gulf...so, no, this is just more Weather Channel (which I used to really enjoy watching until they went all in on climate change) hype.
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