Tropical Storm/Hurricane Nadine, page 1


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Topic started on 2-10-2012 @ 01:28 PM by NotApplicable
I check the weather channel website "hurricane tracker" every now and then.

Hurricane Tracker

Click the link ^ and Nadine should be the first one to come up.

I don't know much about tropical storm/hurricane movement in the ocean, but do they usually do this kind of swirl? It seems like it keeps looping around everytime it looks as if it will die down.

So what I'm asking is, is this common?


reply posted on 2-10-2012 @ 01:39 PM by windowpane
This isn't uncommon, in fact it happens quite a lot.

Check this map from NOAA, containing hurricane track histories back to the 1800s:

www.csc.noaa.gov...

As you can see, this happens when there is little to no steering current, or when a storm becomes hemmed in by high pressure areas.

Nadine is remarkable for the duration of its existence, thus far 21 days. With each day that goes by, it inches closer to breaking the all-time longest lasting tropical system record of 31 days. This was set by Hurricane John (Pacific) in 1994.
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