Odd looking flow pattern

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Odd looking flow pattern

#1 Postby chadtm80 » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:45 pm

The GOM loop just looks very odd to me.. Like a vacum sucking all the "energy" towards LA..

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html
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#2 Postby HURAKAN » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:02 pm

Interesting, as interesting is the low pressure over Houston.
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#3 Postby The Cape Cod Storm » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:16 pm

Do you know how after a storm hits, it's gets knid of gusty, it's on the same idea. Only 10 times stronger
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#4 Postby elw » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:18 pm

It's because of the southerly flow created between the upper ridge to the east (centered over Northern Florida/Southeast Georgia) and upper low to the west (centered very close to the Houston-Galveston area)

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Re: Odd looking flow pattern

#5 Postby vbhoutex » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:19 pm

chadtm80 wrote:The GOM loop just looks very odd to me.. Like a vacum sucking all the "energy" towards LA..

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


That is because you have a high to the East and a Low to the
West and the they are both "flowing" North over LA. they literally are funneling the air/wind/flow between them. This will be pumping a lot of GOM moisture Northward too.
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#6 Postby Rainband » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:21 pm

Isn't that called a gradient :wink:
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Strange

#7 Postby bevgo » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:10 pm

That really does look strange. I understand the explanations but it looks like LA is a black hole sucking everything in. LOL :eek:
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