A clockwise turning low forms in Eastern Pacific!(This is history(

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[Tropicalwatcher]

Is spinning clockwise?????

At 12 north in 114 west wow wow wow

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/epac-ir4-loop.html

I don't know what to say :)

I'm new to freerepublic but have been watching for a few years.

[Puddleglum]

Wierd indeed! Maybe the magnetic poles are getting ready to flip. Oh hell, I'll stop before I expose more ignorance!

[Puddleglum]

What the heck, one more guess: we now know where they're testing the time vortex! If they successfully travel back in time to the past and stop Aaaron Burr from shooting Alexander Hamilton, we'll all wake up in a different world tomorrow. Hoard precious metals while you can!

[John H K]

Yeah, I don't see anything particularly unusual about this system.

People need to get a grip.

[Larry Lucido]

the Coriolis Effect

"I am Coriolis!"

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Tropicalwatcher]

Hey it appeared to have that same spin at the lower levels to. But I thought this was interesting so I posted it. Need to get a grip over what?

[Hand em their arse]

Has anyone checked to see if you're watching it in a mirror??

[aomagrat]

Foolish Humans!
Your weather satellites are no match for our anticyclonic hurricanes. You are Doomed!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John H K]

Getting a grip over the frantic search for weird weather stuff by people with a very limited understanding of what they're looking at. I mean, this is an 80 post thread over precisely...nothing. (Similar to what's been going on with seismology and vulcanology.)

Which, given the South Atlantic Hurricane, and the upcoming worthless flaming turd of a move The Day After Tomorrow, we're gonna see a lot of this year :-)

[Rebelbase]

"People need to get a grip."

Which one, Pinch or Cradle?

[John H K]

Ok,

Basically all it looks like is the Subtropical Jet Stream screaming along at altitude shearing the tops off some Eastern Pacific ITCZ convection from SW to NE. Which is pretty routine, especially in winter. And it's why there isn't tropical activity in the EPAC in winter despite SSTs being warm enough.

Honestly can't see where ANYTHING is truly "rotating" at the surface.

[mtbopfuyn]

It's called the Coriolis Force. The earth is round so hurricanes spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere. The same force causes your bathtub water to drain counter-clockwise, but will drain in the opposite direction in a tub in Australia.

[shamusotoole]

"Normally? or always? Has it ever happened before? Similar to that hurricane that hit Brazil -- one of a kind?"

In the age of square rigger sailing during the fiest half of the 19th Century, the Trade winds reversed themselves world wide. However, the next year they returned to normal. Thus, this is not completely unprecidented.

[AntiGuv]

Hey, thanks! You explained concisely what I was trying to figure out how to say, except you sound knowledgable and adept whereas I sound fumbling and slightly incoherent.. ;^)

I actually thought of you last night & figured you could clear it all up but I couldn't remember your FR name to ping you.

[ATCNavyRetiree]

Daschle is reported to be deeply saddened over this phenomena....

[Tropicalwatcher]

It was a short lived mid to upper low moving "clockwise". Because that was not outflow because outflow don't spin that fast. But it was something interesting to watch :)

[blackie]

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/mtr/fw/crls.rxml

[Erik Latranyi]

John Kerry has just announced that abnormal low pressure systems are due to the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans enacted by the Bush Administration.

[VadeRetro]

I don't think Coriolis forces are all that strong. As a matter of fact, I think they are now considered hypothetical!

They're quite strong on the scale of large weather systems, especially away from the equator. A cyclone in the Norther Hemisphere almost can't do anything but rotate counterclockwise. Nearer the equator, there is less tendency for winds to curve.

To understand the curving, imagine that you're standing at the 20 degree line. I'm due North of you on the 50 degree line. We're both rotating at the same angular velocity--one revolution per day. But my latitude circle is smalller than yours by quite a bit, so my miles-per-hour velocity is smaller.

Suppose you aim a cannon due North toward my position and fire it. Apart from the energy the powder charge gave it, the shell also retains its initial speed from your position rotating the center of the Earth. Thus, it's going faster than I am and will not hit me but will pass "in front" of me to my East. Its path, drawn on a flat Mercator map, will curve right.

From Getting Around the Coriolis Force.

So what is this thread's little system at 12 degrees N doing? Beating the odds, I assume.

[Delta 21]

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Thanks, Blackie. That's a fascinating site.

The things we learn on Free Republic...