08-05-2018, 03:41 AM
terracore discovered and posted this article on the 2018 Hurricane Season thread:
"What Would Happen If a Hurricane Hit an Erupting Volcano?
A showdown of natural forces could have unanticipated consequences..."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...no/543198/
There are some extraordinary events hypothesized as possible if a hurricane passed over a volcanic eruption, such as the hypercane:
Jeff Masters, the meteorology director at Weather Underground, says such an underwater eruption might even spin up something called a hypercane, with winds reaching the speed of sound.
It would take “an awful big coincidence” for this to happen, Masters reassures: The volcano would have to be big enough and hot enough to heat hundreds of miles of the ocean’s surface to 122 degrees. Standard weather dynamics would take it from there. “It’s theoretically possible,” Masters says.
As clearly stated by a trained meteorologist, and conveyed by the writer, it's extremely unlikely, but theoretically possible.
Would a hypercane be possible in Hawaii? Consider the factors required, for instance could underwater seamount Loihi super heat waters south of Big Island, with the hot water then feeding additional energy into a passing hurricane? It might, but again, the possibility is extremely unlikely.
The article also includes this comparison between the forces of a hurricane and volcano:
It’s unlikely the volcano would make much of a dent in this battle. “As massive as the impact of a volcanic eruption can be, it’s hard to grasp the scale of a hurricane,” says David Nolan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami. “The eye wall of a hurricane typically has a radius of 30 miles. Off the top of my head, I'd say the primary updraft from a volcano is just one mile across.”
The writer of the Atlantic article was Jim Nash whose work has also appeared in other reality based publications such as Scientific American, and Wired.
The Atlantic Magazine was founded in Boston in 1857 by a group which included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. They were among the first to publish articles by abolitionists, and later Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, John Muir... https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...60/545120/
"What Would Happen If a Hurricane Hit an Erupting Volcano?
A showdown of natural forces could have unanticipated consequences..."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...no/543198/
There are some extraordinary events hypothesized as possible if a hurricane passed over a volcanic eruption, such as the hypercane:
Jeff Masters, the meteorology director at Weather Underground, says such an underwater eruption might even spin up something called a hypercane, with winds reaching the speed of sound.
It would take “an awful big coincidence” for this to happen, Masters reassures: The volcano would have to be big enough and hot enough to heat hundreds of miles of the ocean’s surface to 122 degrees. Standard weather dynamics would take it from there. “It’s theoretically possible,” Masters says.
As clearly stated by a trained meteorologist, and conveyed by the writer, it's extremely unlikely, but theoretically possible.
Would a hypercane be possible in Hawaii? Consider the factors required, for instance could underwater seamount Loihi super heat waters south of Big Island, with the hot water then feeding additional energy into a passing hurricane? It might, but again, the possibility is extremely unlikely.
The article also includes this comparison between the forces of a hurricane and volcano:
It’s unlikely the volcano would make much of a dent in this battle. “As massive as the impact of a volcanic eruption can be, it’s hard to grasp the scale of a hurricane,” says David Nolan, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami. “The eye wall of a hurricane typically has a radius of 30 miles. Off the top of my head, I'd say the primary updraft from a volcano is just one mile across.”
The writer of the Atlantic article was Jim Nash whose work has also appeared in other reality based publications such as Scientific American, and Wired.
The Atlantic Magazine was founded in Boston in 1857 by a group which included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. They were among the first to publish articles by abolitionists, and later Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, John Muir... https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...60/545120/
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