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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You do realize neither storm is predicted to be more than Cat 1 with the storm heading to Texas probably being a tropical storm at landfall. You also recognize sheltering and other needs are the requirements of local and state government, right? FEMA has the checkbook...this is not “the big one”...
With all due respect—no he doesn’t need to do that.
I’m sitting in a restaurant in Biloxi MS right now eating a fantastic shrimp poboy. Biloxi was pretty much wiped off the map by Katrina and a lot of it’s residents with it. Katrina kind of snuck up on people here not because they weren’t told it’d be the “big one” but rather because the same thing had been proclaimed relentlessly over every storm for several years prior. The weather channel had figured out that they could increase their ad revenue by a lot if they proclaimed every minor storm to be the storm of the century and rushed Jim Cantore onto the scene. Just like the Covid fraud right now people eventually got tired of the media crying wolf and started tuning out. When the real storm of the century arrived people ignored them because they’d been bullchitted so many times over the last few years and it ended up costing lives. It’s a huge PITA to board up everything, load the family, pets, and valuables into the car and drive several hundred miles to rent a hotel for several days only to realize that the media was hyping the whole thing for ratings. After the third or fourth time of doing that and it turning out to be nothing the cuteness factor tends to wear off.
I’d much prefer the media try a novel approach for them—-tell the truth. The truth is we don’t know yet what’s going to happen with these storms, we’re monitoring it and will let you know as soon as we know something. That’s what President Trump needs to say, not rush to the podium and proclaim imminent disaster to score political points.
The last thing we need is a return to the alarmist theater that existed prior to Katrina and resulted in the masses ignoring the legitimate warnings because they’d been BS’d so many times over the last few years. Just give us the facts, not hysteria.
“You do realize neither storm is predicted to be more than Cat 1 with the storm heading to Texas probably being a tropical storm at landfall. “
I am. I am also aware that if one person dies, the press and democrats will turn it into the second coming of Katrina.
I can hear it now from the leftist bunker basements, ‘That Trump is twisting Rove’s dials on his weather machine!’
No...but I don’t get into a damn frenzy every time the media claim ‘could’, ‘might’, ‘if’ etc. do you? Seems like a lot of wasted energy. And btw, what makes you think I’m not prepared?
Pshh... Hurricanes. We have communism knocking on our door. Folks can’t imagine the damage!
What I worry about with any Hurricane is the flooding we get in WV. It can come from the SW or the SE and put WV in trouble. No flat land here. All you can do when the rain keeps falling, is to climb the mountain and wait. We don’t build underground shelters. We build them up the mountain. If we live on a river, we build flood walls and pray.
Are any of the casinos open?
I saw one meteorologist speaking about this today; he suggested that often, in a situation like this (if those predictions remain) one storm may suppress the other.
You guys are always in many prayers during storms. I wasn’t saying not to be prepared, only to not wig out and panic because the media batting average is pretty poor.
Yes, they all are.
Their trajectory is days apart.
Last time I checked, it looks like New Orleans will be the hardest hit. So you all east of there, watch out.
We just saw a later forecast that indicated that.
Riding out a storm alone is rough - hats off to you for sending the family to safer areas... But being at 210 would be a dream come true. My back yard ends at a tidal stream... Supposedly I'm 12 feet above sea level but I stand at water's edge and look back at my home and it looks more 7 feet - at best.
Is that anything like the Fuji Hakayito effect?
Excellent points... AND we have a lot more warning than folks who deal with earthquakes and fires...
Thanks for adding perspective...
Why is the Fujiwhara Effect so rare? because the wind on the right of storm 1 is flowing in the opposite direction of the wind on the left of storm 2. That creates sheer.
12 feet isn’t enough. It is just a matter of time. I had family that lived in Alvin for decades. I knew enough from them to find some high ground. We were in the area only 30 years so in that time we only had just a few and none like Katrina. Rita was the most bedlam, Ivan the most damage.
We lived at Sugarland for a few years. It was great to leave there.
Not so rough. With a good generator, chainsaw, tractor, water well and mac and cheese and a friend near by you can go a long time! I was always very happy when it all ended though.
True that !
"The tangos are inside the wire ".
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