Have you ever seen a satellite image of a tropical cyclone and thought that it looked surprisingly similar to a satellite image of a different tropical cyclone (or perhaps something somewhat in the shape of a tropical cyclone, such as the Patelco Credit Union logo)? Post those examples here.
To start, here's a rare example of simultaneous look-alikes, the 2019 iterations of Lekima and Krosa:
Tropical cyclone look-alikes
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Re: Tropical cyclone look-alikes
Douglas 2020:
Ida 2021:
Ida 2021:
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Re: Tropical cyclone look-alikes
I don't have pictures but I remember thinking Daniel 2006 looked a lot like Isabel.
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Re: Tropical cyclone look-alikes
Best example of simultaneous twins I can think of are STYs Ivan and Joan in 1997.
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The overall setup with Olga and Zeta was remarkably similar, even if the storms themselves weren't.
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Re: Tropical cyclone look-alikes
When Dorian first made it to cat4 it looked a lot like Hugo prior to its SC landfall.
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