I have been pondering what would happen if two large hurricanes collided with each other. As I lack the profeciency with physics and meteorology required to answer this, I turn to you.
2006-09-01 03:21:05 · 5 answers · asked by wytbyt 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Normally, when two similarly powerful hurricanes approach each other, they rotate around each other in a dance called the Fujiwhara effect. This usually ends with the two storms merging. Until they merge, each storm's outflow inhibits the other storm from further development. If one storm is much more powerful than the other, the more powerful storm's path of motion not be affected as much as the smaller storm's, and the smaller one will orbit the larger one before collapsing into it. Sometimes, due to other atmospheric factors, two storms complete only a partial orbit before moving away from each other.
2006-09-01 05:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering the time that they contact each-other, there would probably be a rather small loss of rotating and latent energy in each hurricane, due to displacement of the energy inside each hurricane as they share the same one cloud mass - themselves. And if the eye of one hurricane gets cluttered, the hurricane of that eye will not be able to get anymore warm air to circulate through itself, as the cold air that enters the eye is crucial to a hurricane's share of it once it gets warm. So one hurricane is bound to get canceled, and in the process, have its energy and moisture used up by the other hurricane.
You know, the main reason that implies to the fact that a hurricane has an eye are that a hurricane contains so much moisture and heat that it rises up until it cannot rise anymore, giving it a uniform disc-like relief from the top, causing pressure to build between the cold air going down and the top area of the hurricane, until the eye is finally formed.
2006-09-04 12:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by Peter R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would merge into a larger storm ... storms do this quite often. If you remember the movie (and the facts it was based around) "The Perfect Storm" that storm came from the merger of three different systems.
2006-09-01 10:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called "The Perfect Storm"
It's happened before...there is a movie of the same name.
2006-09-01 10:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by jaike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One would get caught into the rotation of the other one and make the other one bigger, but not more powerful.
2006-09-01 22:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋