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Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose

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Re: Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose

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Compare https://www.ventusky.com/?p=19.6;-77.9;4&l=wind&w=0xIAb9A9A

That’s my new favorite.

It’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters.

It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.

Re: Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose

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Is this derived from http://hint.fm/wind/ ? Also, does anyone know how that elbow in the path forecast comes about? Is there something magical about the waist of Cuba that suddenly makes it turn north?

"Because of the passage of an upper-level trough to the north, with Irma starting to feel the steering effects of the westerly flow of the midlatitudes." Described in detail with figures here: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/09/american-versus-europe...
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