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Fujiwhara effect - when 2 hurricanes collide

 

What do you get when one cyclone crashes into another? An even bigger storm!

It’s called the Fujiwhara Effect: A rare phenomenon involving two cyclones that get a little too close. When that happens, they find a shared center and continue spinning around it. NOAA said there usually are a couple of scenarios that play out thereafter. The two cyclones could keep spinning around dancing before shooting off on their own path or – and this is way more interesting – the bigger system can absorb the smaller one and become larger than before.

The year 2005 was the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record, and one memorable storm underwent the Fujiwhara Effect.

After Hurricane Wilma slammed into the southwest Florida coast as a 120-mph storm, it weakened as it crossed the state and was a shell of its former self upon reaching the Atlantic Ocean. But it moved over warmer Gulf Stream waters and ended up absorbing Tropical Storm Alpha.

Wilma again reached major hurricane strength before weakening. This rare phenomenon actually happened twice in 2017 in the eastern Pacific Ocean with hurricanes Hilary and Irwin and typhoon Noru and tropical storm Kulap in the west Pacific.

David McNeal surfing Hurricane Wilma 2005 Panhandle. Photo by Jorge the Surfing Rican

Wilma Bradenton Beach. Photo Ryan Clapper

MVZ Anna Maria Island Hurricane Wilma. Photo Ryan Clapper

 

Chris Ward Bradenton Beach. Hurricane Wilma. Photo Ryan Clapper

   

 



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