Hurricane season 2016

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hawaii is now in the direct path of national news reports. This one made some interesting historical and meteorological observations:

In what’s being hailed a meteorological first, two back-to-back hurricanes are marching toward Hawaii, both of them threatening torrential rains and rip-roaring winds this week. The closer of the two, hurricane Madeline, could break a second meteorological record as the first hurricane to strike the Big Island since bookkeeping began in 1949.

“What’s concerning is that even if Madeline stays offshore, that’ll put the Big Island on the righthand side of the storm,” Henson told Gizmodo. “That’s more dangerous because of how winds rotate in a hurricane, and because those winds will be pushing up very high mountain slopes, which will squeeze out a torrential amount of rain.”

For Hawaii, there is one silver lining to this ominous situation: Nearby cyclones tend to spin around each other, in a phenomenon known as the Fujiwhara effect. “What this means is the one ahead in line gets angled a little to the left, while the one behind is angled slightly to the right,” Henson said.

In other words, the Fujiwhara effect could turn Madeline a bit further to the south while nudging Lester slightly further north, steering both storms clear of the Big Island. “The irony is, if if only one of these storms were there, there’d be a bigger chance of a direct hit,” Henson said.

http://gizmodo.com/two-unprecedented-hur...1785935499

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