Colossal hurricane-like storm seen on Saturn

[Evil Jeremy]

good read!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_ ... _saturn_dc

[Jim Cantore]

It's got a double eyewall

[brunota2003]

hey...I smell a recon flight for this storm...or at least they should send some type of probe through it to:
A) determine what it is made of
B) Map the winds, just to see how strong they are
C) is it warm-cored?
D) maybe do quikscat or something else on it...but send out a probe just to study this "hurricane"

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

You could not fit that thing on this planet.

[HURAKAN]

Does it rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise?

[Evil Jeremy]

clockwise.

[marcane_1973]

How do they know winds are really howling at 350 mph???

[Ptarmigan]

Now, that's a hypercane! Think about the high waves and storm surge it would produce.

[AnnularCane]

Is it coming this way? Should we start stocking up?

[senorpepr]

Nasa's Casini spacecraft discovered a hurricane-like storm on Saturn.

Story and pictures on the NASA site for this mission.

[wxmann_91]

Sorry to beat a dead horse but how is the other topic spam?

i made a topic on this a few days ago and this is spam.

Some people don't always go down the page and read every thread before posting another one. Yeah, I know it's not a good habit, but I wouldn't refer to not doing so "spam".

Anyhow, that is some interesting stuff. Probably a polar-low type feature just like here on earth. The coriolis effect does have an effect on all planets, and remember that the term "fluid" in physics does apply to both liquids and gases. Probably not that uncommon of an occurrence. BTW Kelvin-Helmholtz waves have been documented on Saturn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin-Hel ... nstability

[senorpepr]

Sorry to beat a dead horse but how is the other topic spam?

i made a topic on this a few days ago and this is spam.

Some people don't always go down the page and read every thread before posting another one. Yeah, I know it's not a good habit, but I wouldn't refer to not doing so "spam".

Anyhow, that is some interesting stuff. Probably a polar-low type feature just like here on earth. The coriolis effect does have an effect on all planets, and remember that the term "fluid" in physics does apply to both liquids and gases. Probably not that uncommon of an occurrence. BTW Kelvin-Helmholtz waves have been documented on Saturn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin-Hel ... nstability

It's not spam. I only locked that thread because this one already existed.

As for your comment about a polar-low... I agree. This is probably the more likely case rather than a "tropical cyclone."

[Jim Cantore]

Is it coming this way? Should we start stocking up?

A Hypecane warning is up for all of planet earth. Run to the store, steal food, steal batteries, trample each other. Get out of the way.

[Aquawind]

Snowflakes at 350mph! Ouch!

[Jim Cantore]

Sorry to beat a dead horse but how is the other topic spam?

i made a topic on this a few days ago and this is spam.

Some people don't always go down the page and read every thread before posting another one. Yeah, I know it's not a good habit, but I wouldn't refer to not doing so "spam".

Anyhow, that is some interesting stuff. Probably a polar-low type feature just like here on earth. The coriolis effect does have an effect on all planets, and remember that the term "fluid" in physics does apply to both liquids and gases. Probably not that uncommon of an occurrence. BTW Kelvin-Helmholtz waves have been documented on Saturn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin-Hel ... nstability

It's not spam. I only locked that thread because this one already existed.

As for your comment about a polar-low... I agree. This is probably the more likely case rather than a "tropical cyclone."

as southfloridawx said on the other thread. this is spam.