Margie
(Senior Storm Chaser)
Sun Oct 09 2005 06:37 PM
Re: Tropical Storm Vince forms in the Far Eastern Atlantic

Quote:

It's not really the SSTs that are the sole contributor to tropical cyclone development in the midlatitudes -- instead, it is the temperature differential between the SSTs and the upper-levels. If a system has colder-than-normal temperatures at the top of the troposphere, it can over come less-than-critical SSTs to form into a tropical cyclone.


Thanks for explaining because I was wondering about that.

I've been going to the navy site because can't find any other sat images of Vince. What a petite perfectly-formed cat 1 hurricane. This has got to be one of the front-runners for the strangest season on record.


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