Two wave move off of Africa together on a warm day in the middle of September. The leading one intensifies into a major hurricane. The one behind follows suit the next day. The first one stalls, the second one still goes. They ram into each other. BOOM! Super hurricane.
I have held this question since childhood. Can two hurricanes collide with each other? The last time I saw a hurricane "collision" was earlier this year in the WPAC, when Severe Tropical Storm Lionrock ate up Tropical Storm Namtheun, although it wasn't really a collision and wasn't spectacular.
A superhurricane scenerio from 2005. I don't think it happened, did it?
Colliding Hurricanes? A Quick Question
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Re: Colliding Hurricanes? A Quick Question
Hurricanes don't collide, they do the Fujiwara interaction, they rotate around a common center and if they are close enough the bigger or stronger system will absorb the weaker one. In Alpha's and Wilma's case I think there was not Fujiwara because Alpha was already in a weakend state and it was caught in Wilma's inflow though I'm not sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_effect
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