It’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters.
It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.
Also, does anyone know how that elbow in the path forecast comes about? Is there something magical about the waist of Cuba that suddenly makes it turn north?
"Because of the passage of an upper-level trough to the north, with Irma starting to feel the steering effects of the westerly flow of the midlatitudes." Described in detail with figures here: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/09/american-versus-europe...
Not sure if this is some display artifact, but the most striking thing to me is how strange the wind patterns are in many parts of North America if you zoom out.
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[ 475 ms ] story [ 2062 ms ] threadIt’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters.
It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.
https://www.windy.com/?20.633,-75.498,5,a:q3iI3
https://www.windy.com/?20.633,-75.498,5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSmNZm1e0k&feature=youtu.be...
Also, does anyone know how that elbow in the path forecast comes about? Is there something magical about the waist of Cuba that suddenly makes it turn north?