Learn About Hurricanes As We Approach Hurricane Season! (credit: Weather Forecast Solutions)3/23/2017  As we get closer to the start of hurricane season, there is a growing interest to learn more about how tropical cyclones form and intensity across the wide expanse of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and across other oceanic basins as well! In thinking about this exact subject, the Weather Forecast Solutions team (based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) created a neat article which encompasses many important details surrounding the science behind tropical cyclones. For example, part of this article discusses the process in which tropical cyclone formation and intensification occurs and goes into how the ocean and atmosphere collectively interact to generate such large, powerful cyclones which frequently inflict major damage on coastal communities around the world on a seasonal basis. To read the full article, just click on the following link!
To learn more about other neat tropical cyclone stories from around the world, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz
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DISCUSSION: As of earlier today, Tropical Cyclone Enawo continued to intensity offshore from the eastern coast of Madagascar. As it currently stands, Enawo is maintaining the equivalent intensity of a Category 4 hurricane across the central-to-eastern Pacific Ocean as well as across the Tropical Atlantic basin. As can be clearly seen in the recent animated infrared satellite imagery (courtesy of the Cooperative Institute of Meteorological Satellite Studies or CIMSS), this current tropical cyclone (as rare as it is to occur at this higher intensity offshore from eastern Africa and/or Madagascar) even has a clear and symmetric eye and eye-wall associated with the center of the circulation. Moreover, you can also see the brighter colored cloud tops which indicates the presence of the deeper thunderstorms wrapped tightly around the center of the circulation of Tropical Cyclone Enawo. Thus, Tropical Cyclone Enawo is a very powerful, symmetric, and well-organized cyclone with a plethora of energy is associated with it. Therefore, all those in the path of this incoming tropical cyclone should give it due respect and avoid remaining in the path of this powerful tropical cyclone if at all possible.
To learn more about high-impact weather events occurring across Africa, be sure to click here! ©2017 Meteorologist Jordan Rabinowitz |
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