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donsu

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Mon Mar-29-04 01:52 PM
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Brazil's pseudo Hurricane

read a report today that meteorologists don't know what to call the storm because it looked like a hurricane but hurricanes have hot centers and this storm had a cold center. and was not started by heat.

It is a first of it's kind on earth. They don't know what to call it.

So the glaciers are melting at a fast pace, dead zones in the ocean are getting larger, don't even talk about the ozone layer, and the southern Atlantic is forming new kinds of storms.

it's too late.

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Gman

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Mon Mar-29-04 01:54 PM
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1. I had no idea it had a cold core

Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 01:55 PM by Gman

Do you have a link? Meteorogically, this is completely bizarre. This storm apparently did not have real tropical characteristics and was extra-tropical.

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Narf

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Mon Mar-29-04 01:55 PM
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2. Cold core?....Sounds like my ex!

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cprise

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Mon Mar-29-04 02:03 PM
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5. Not only was its direction of spin opposite from a real hurricane

...but so was its thermal properties??

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hatrack

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Mon Mar-29-04 02:09 PM
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6. Wouldn't it have to spin clockwise?

Since it's in the Southern Hemisphere, it would have to be "backwards", wouldn't it? :shrug:

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Gman

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Mon Mar-29-04 02:12 PM
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7. It would have spun clockwise

being in the Southern Hemisphere. A hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere spins counter-clockwise.

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ewagner

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Mon Mar-29-04 01:56 PM
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3. Just listened

to the Univ of Wisc meteorologists on WPR.

for their part, they think it's a hurricane. Whether it's a first ever is debatable. They suspect there will be several very long reports on this thing within the next couple of weeks that will give a better understanding of the dynamics of this thing.

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phantom power

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Mon Mar-29-04 02:00 PM
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4. according to the first report

This storm *started* with a cold core, and then transformed into a hot-core storm, by sitting on top of some warm water for a few days.

Just whistling in the dark, whistling in the dark....

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Gman

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Mon Mar-29-04 02:14 PM
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8. That makes more sense

That happens occasionally in the Northern Hemisphere early in the season then late in the season.

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amazona

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Mon Mar-29-04 08:39 PM
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9. wow thanks for the update

I knew the Brazilians were saying the winds were not hurricane speed, and I was dying to learn more. I've been a victim of a tropical storm and it isn't pretty, no matter the cause. I hope we don't see more of these.

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