South Atlantic Hurricane??? *PIC*

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`Hurricane` Heading Toward Southern Brazil!



A South Atlantic Tropical Cyclone!?! Most literature dealing with tropical weather would agree: hurricanes are unknown over the southern Atlantic Ocean. Yet, as of early Friday, a storm with a well-formed eye about 300 miles east of southern Brazil has all the look of a hurricane. If indeed this is a tropical cyclone, it did not begin in the usual way; rather, it began as an ordinary "cool" trough that sat over warm seas for a few days. The atmospheric setting must have been "just right" to allow this trough to strengthen markedly while altering from cool-core to warm-core, and thus tropical, in nature.

 

[kuk]

Yeah, I was reading about it right now.
As a weather nut, I'm very interested (although a bit apprehensive) of what will become of this.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: kuk
Yeah, I was reading about it right now.
As a weather nut, I'm very interested (although a bit apprehensive) of what will become of this.

Very interesting. Same here...

Is there any data available on the storm? We need to send one of our hurricane planes down there...

 

[kuk]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: kuk
Yeah, I was reading about it right now.
As a weather nut, I'm very interested (although a bit apprehensive) of what will become of this.

Very interesting. Same here...

Is there any data available on the storm? We need to send one of our hurricane planes down there...

Last info that I had was of a cat 1 storm, with 119 to 125 km/h winds.
I live on the top tip of the S in 'Sat Eve' in that second image. Not likely to be hit by the storm, but I can't help wonder how much damage it would bring to an unprepared country.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: kuk

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: kuk
Yeah, I was reading about it right now.
As a weather nut, I'm very interested (although a bit apprehensive) of what will become of this.

Very interesting. Same here...

Is there any data available on the storm? We need to send one of our hurricane planes down there...

Last info that I had was of a cat 1 storm, with 119 to 125 km/h winds.
I live on the top tip of the S in 'Sat Eve' in that second image. Not likely to be hit by the storm, but I can't help wonder how much damage it would bring to an unprepared country.

Ahh, cool.. I thought you lived in the US for some reason, heh.

Keep us updated!

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

Ooooh. Nice catch. I didn't notice that at first.


Pretty cool.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

doesnt all natural phenomenon happen the opposite way from the northern hemisphere? like toilets flushing clockwise and what not?

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

doesnt all natural phenomenon happen the opposite way from the northern hemisphere? like toilets flushing clockwise and what not?

Well, first of all that toilet thing is a urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Derango

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

doesnt all natural phenomenon happen the opposite way from the northern hemisphere? like toilets flushing clockwise and what not?

Well, first of all that toilet thing is a urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm

Interesting. I thought it was fact, as well.

But.. the storm is spinning clockwise...

 

[bauerbrazil]

Yeah, crazy stuff. I saw this minutes ago.

I live in Sao Paulo too, probably we wont be hit.

I dont know if this wind velocity could cause damage.

 

[bauerbrazil]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Derango

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

doesnt all natural phenomenon happen the opposite way from the northern hemisphere? like toilets flushing clockwise and what not?

Well, first of all that toilet thing is a urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm

Interesting. I thought it was fact, as well.

But.. the storm is spinning clockwise...

From that link.

"The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet."

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: bauerbrazil

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Derango

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

doesnt all natural phenomenon happen the opposite way from the northern hemisphere? like toilets flushing clockwise and what not?

Well, first of all that toilet thing is a urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm

Interesting. I thought it was fact, as well.

But.. the storm is spinning clockwise...

From that link.

"The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet."

Ahh. I guess I should've read it fully, lol.

 

[bauerbrazil]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: bauerbrazil

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Derango

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: gotey
did you notice the storm is rotating clockwise?

doesnt all natural phenomenon happen the opposite way from the northern hemisphere? like toilets flushing clockwise and what not?

Well, first of all that toilet thing is a urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm

Interesting. I thought it was fact, as well.

But.. the storm is spinning clockwise...

From that link.

"The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet."

Ahh. I guess I should've read it fully, lol.

 

[Kerouactivist]

two words

Global Warming
and
Eat my A** (edited for the weak and weary)

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Dr. Evil is up to it again

 

[kuk]

A nice image for those that are interested (warning ... 4.6MB file )

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/brazil_tmo_2004086_lrg.jpg

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

That's OUTRAGEOUS ! Up close that looks like the H-Bomb test at Bikini Atoll

The ppl of Brazil don't need a bath that bad..j/k I hope all is well, for the folks down there :sun:

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: kuk
A nice image for those that are interested (warning ... 4.6MB file )

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/brazil_tmo_2004086_lrg.jpg

Schweet...

The eye doesen't look nearly as well formed in that closeup image as the wide angle images.

 

[XZeroII]

Nice site!
Solar Eclipse over Antarctica
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/Eclipse_Amo2003327_lrg.jpg


Another Hurricane over the phillipeans
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/Lupit.TMOA2003330_lrg.jpg

 

[Shuxclams]

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[Xenon]

That satellite picture is incredible. The Brazilians really are "out to lunch" on this one as the US meteorologists have stated. How can you not see that that is a Cat 1 hurricane?

 

[B00ne]

I dont know if Hurricanes are different than the storms we have which are just called storm, but 125km/h wind isnt causing damage

 

[ndee]

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just read the snopes link.

 

[kuk]

Two dead and seven missing as of this morning.

There are conflicts on how this storm should be categorized. Since all measurements are estimated (no planes have flown into the storm, because we never had the need to have hurricane planes), one can only guess how it will behave.