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#1 Postby Jim Cantore » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:10 am

a tropical system to carry 2 centers of circulation?

it may sound silly but I'm just curious.
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#2 Postby wjs3 » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:12 am

Sure...one that's not well developed can have competing centers. Even more than two. That's not what you mean, though, is it?
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#3 Postby Jim Cantore » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:18 am

What about two well developed centers?
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#4 Postby wjs3 » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:29 am

I'd say unlikely.

There's going to be one center where convergence at the surface is stronger and divergence aloft is really cranking. It gets strong enough and it's going to obliterate any other centers.

Impossible? I don't know. Unlikely? For sure.
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#5 Postby NFLDART » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:52 am

that would however be really interesting to see...
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#6 Postby wxman57 » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:35 pm

It just so happens that I saved a shot of Mitch in 1998 which showed two distinct centers of circulation when the hurricane was at 942mb.

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#7 Postby Jim Cantore » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:43 pm

wxman57 wrote:It just so happens that I saved a shot of Mitch in 1998 which showed two distinct centers of circulation when the hurricane was at 942mb.

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Thats freaky looking, almost looks photoshopped.

He's staring at us :eek:
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#8 Postby wxman57 » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:47 pm

Category 5 wrote:
wxman57 wrote:It just so happens that I saved a shot of Mitch in 1998 which showed two distinct centers of circulation when the hurricane was at 942mb.

http://myweb.cableone.net/nolasue/mitch5a.jpg


Thats freaky looking, almost looks photoshopped.

He's staring at us :eek:


Or PaintShop Pro... I made the image in 1998 when the NHC was talking about a double-eye structure. Was fun to show at hurricane conferences. ;-)
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#9 Postby Jim Cantore » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:56 pm

Wouldn't that be quite a sight huh.
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#10 Postby JonathanBelles » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:05 pm

that was photoshoped look at the eye on the left and the 3 blue dashes.

a real storm was wilma at one point had 2 eyes
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#11 Postby Jim Cantore » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:20 pm

I'm not sure what caused it but I don't think it actually had 2 eyes, I hear it was dry air or something. I'm not sure.
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#12 Postby Ptarmigan » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:00 pm

wxman57 wrote:It just so happens that I saved a shot of Mitch in 1998 which showed two distinct centers of circulation when the hurricane was at 942mb.

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Is that a real image? Looks photoshopped to me. :wink:
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#13 Postby senorpepr » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:11 pm

Aye, aye, aye...

Of course it's photoshopped... read what wxman said:

wxman57 wrote:Or PaintShop Pro... I made the image in 1998 when the NHC was talking about a double-eye structure. Was fun to show at hurricane conferences. :Wink:
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#14 Postby Ptarmigan » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:22 pm

senorpepr wrote:Aye, aye, aye...

Of course it's photoshopped... read what wxman said:

wxman57 wrote:Or PaintShop Pro... I made the image in 1998 when the NHC was talking about a double-eye structure. Was fun to show at hurricane conferences. :Wink:


Oh OK. :wink: :oops:
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#15 Postby Aslkahuna » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:49 pm

During the early stages of formation, many storms will show two or more distinct circulation centers until one becomes the dominant one and begins to intensify.

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#16 Postby Jim Cantore » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:36 pm

fact789 wrote:a real storm was wilma at one point had 2 eyes


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#17 Postby brunota2003 » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:56 pm

yes...Wilma's was caused by dry air entrainment...eroded part of the convection and caused a pocket of clear air to form...
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#18 Postby wxman57 » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:25 pm

brunota2003 wrote:yes...Wilma's was caused by dry air entrainment...eroded part of the convection and caused a pocket of clear air to form...


Actually, I believe that picture shows a single very large eye with a band of clouds cutting across the center. Wilma was one of the largest hurricanes on record as it began ET transition after passing Florida. Had a very large eye.
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