Colliding Hurricanes? A Quick Question

[HurricaneStriker]

Two wave move off of Africa together on a warm day in the middle of September. The leading one intensifies into a major hurricane. The one behind follows suit the next day. The first one stalls, the second one still goes. They ram into each other. BOOM! Super hurricane.



I have held this question since childhood. Can two hurricanes collide with each other? The last time I saw a hurricane "collision" was earlier this year in the WPAC, when Severe Tropical Storm Lionrock ate up Tropical Storm Namtheun, although it wasn't really a collision and wasn't spectacular.




A superhurricane scenerio from 2005. I don't think it happened, did it?

[frigidice77]

Not possible imo.

[Macrocane]

Hurricanes don't collide, they do the Fujiwara interaction, they rotate around a common center and if they are close enough the bigger or stronger system will absorb the weaker one. In Alpha's and Wilma's case I think there was not Fujiwara because Alpha was already in a weakend state and it was caught in Wilma's inflow though I'm not sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_effect