To: Kay
Because a low pressure, in the Eastern Pacific normally spins counter-clockwise.
To: Tropicalwatcher
It is not 114 west but 119 west.
To: Tropicalwatcher
Normally? or always? Has it ever happened before?
Similar to that hurricane that hit Brazil -- one of a kind?
6 posted on
04/18/2004 1:14:45 AM PDT by
Kay
To: Tropicalwatcher
Lows in the NORTHERN hemisphere rotate counter-clockwise. In the southern hemisphere they spin clockwise as with the recent hurricane off Brazil.
8 posted on
04/18/2004 1:16:25 AM PDT by
orchid
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To: Tropicalwatcher
Because a low pressure, in the Eastern Pacific normally spins counter-clockwise. Northern hemisphere low pressure systems do rotate counter-clockwise at the surface. Convecting air actually creates higher pressure aloft over low systems and that air rotates clockwise. My guess on this oddly appearing system is that we are seeing a cirrus shield aloft rotating clockwise, that the cirrus clouds are hiding from our view the lower, counter-clockwise rotating clouds of the surface low.
80 posted on
04/18/2004 4:15:55 AM PDT by
ngc6656
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