Quote: I remember hearing the same thing and was wondering about that with Dorian. Is it that a large hurricane meaning one that has more coverage, or a large hurricane meaning one that has more strength can do this? Or is that not the case?
Large is generally used to describe it's physical size. Dorian is not a normal H4 which should have much larger storms around it, feeding it.
Hurricanes are just lesser windstorms with lots of warm water creating convection up above the normal clouds into thunderheads which turn into large storms which turn into hurricane food. All of this usually to the North West of them as most of our storms go West/West-North West.
Go check out a good doppler radar video of a hurricane and it'll show you all the thunderstorms firing up all around it before they're all drawn into the hurricane as food.
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