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Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West
      Thu Sep 04 2008 04:17 PM

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1. Is it possible to have the 3 combine and make 1 big hurricane?


The answer is it is possible. It is called the Fujiwhara effect and occurs when cyclonic vorticies get close together. They begin orbiting each other, and eventually merge. However, in the case of hurricanes, this is extremely unlikely to happen: the shear created by one storm is far more likely to rip the other one apart way before the Fujiwhara effect can happen. Further, even if it did happen, the interactions of the outflows and shearing effects would create a substantially weakened vortex, if the vortex even managed to survive. However, this type of effect can be seen when there are multiple vorticies within a single system during development. (thanks Lee-Delray for your post on the 2nd giving the name of this phenomenon)

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and vice versa..


Not possible. In order for a system to divide into two vortexes, it would have to first lose a single center of circulation and essentially become a broad area of low pressure prior to splitting into multiple vortexes. These vortexes would be weak, and would be naturally pulled back together into a single low pressure by the Fujiwhara effect. Any system that managed to split in the first place wouldn't be considered a hurricane anymore, as it would have become too weak to be such a storm, and the low pressure too undefined.

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2. Can a bigger one push another back or even diminish it?


The size of the storm doesn't matter, only the outflow characteristics and the shear created from each storm. This shear can (and often does) diminish nearby storms.

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* Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West MikeCAdministrator Thu Sep 04 2008 04:17 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West kromdog   Thu Sep 04 2008 07:52 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West LoisCane   Thu Sep 04 2008 07:31 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Hugh   Thu Sep 04 2008 07:18 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Lee-Delray   Thu Sep 04 2008 07:18 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West MissouriHurricane2008   Thu Sep 04 2008 07:02 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Random Chaos   Thu Sep 04 2008 05:52 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Lee-Delray   Thu Sep 04 2008 05:36 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West LoisCane   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:55 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West craigm   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:33 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Raymond   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:24 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Random Chaos   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:17 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West LoisCane   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:13 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West starwise   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:00 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West banks305   Thu Sep 04 2008 03:34 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Clark   Thu Sep 04 2008 01:53 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving Northwest, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West cieldumort   Thu Sep 04 2008 12:28 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West PFSThunder   Thu Sep 04 2008 10:20 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West MissBecky   Thu Sep 04 2008 10:16 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Humanriff   Thu Sep 04 2008 09:47 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West doug   Thu Sep 04 2008 09:35 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Raymond   Thu Sep 04 2008 07:18 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West cieldumort   Thu Sep 04 2008 04:05 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Clark   Thu Sep 04 2008 03:06 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West Clark   Thu Sep 04 2008 03:02 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West scottsvb   Thu Sep 04 2008 02:54 AM
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. * * Re: Hanna Moving North, Category 4 Hurricane Ike Forms Moving West berrywr   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:58 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West JoshuaK   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:35 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West scottsvb   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:14 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West LoisCane   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:05 PM
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. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West MikeCAdministrator   Wed Sep 03 2008 07:29 PM
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. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Random Chaos   Wed Sep 03 2008 05:03 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West jessiej   Wed Sep 03 2008 04:53 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Lee-Delray   Wed Sep 03 2008 04:10 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Storm Cooper   Wed Sep 03 2008 04:09 PM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West TheElNino1   Wed Sep 03 2008 04:01 PM
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. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West ftlaudbob   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:30 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West kromdog   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:21 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Ed in Va   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:17 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Raymond   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:08 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West LoisCane   Wed Sep 03 2008 11:05 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West MikeCAdministrator   Wed Sep 03 2008 10:52 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West ftlaudbob   Wed Sep 03 2008 10:45 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West LoisCane   Wed Sep 03 2008 10:43 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West Lee-Delray   Wed Sep 03 2008 10:39 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West MikeCAdministrator   Wed Sep 03 2008 10:10 AM
. * * Re: Hanna Still Stalled, Ike Moving West catadjuster   Wed Sep 03 2008 09:52 AM
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