Two hurricanes at once side by side?

scostorms · #1 Postby **scostorms** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:28 pm

I saw not to far back that two typhoons in the west Pacific were travelling side by side towards Japan. My question is, how likely is this to occur in the Atlantic? I have not heard such a thing occuring in the past, but it has been on my mind since I heard first word.

Website · #2 Postby **Brent** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:31 pm

They wouldn't travel close together. It's not possible. The outflow from one would kill the other one if it ever got that far...

Astro_man92 · #3 Postby **Astro_man92** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:40 pm

actually

Here is a thread explaining it (I think) hope this helps

Storm2K Thread: Future Frenklin and Gert?

arcticfire · #4 Postby **arcticfire** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:42 pm

Well I would imagine "close" is a relative term. Remember the pacific is huge compared with the atlantic. I could be wrong here but if I recall the pictures of the 2 storms you speak of , if you put one in the bahamas the other would be right off africa.

scostorms · #5 Postby **scostorms** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:47 pm

They were a good space apart, Typhoon Mawar and some other one, but they were both going in the same direction and both about the same size... Here it is...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsro ... 4.0110.jpg

Website · #6 Postby **Brent** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:50 pm

The WPAC had two typhoons a couple of days ago... one near Taiwan and the other a little north of Guam. That's about 1,600 miles. That's the same distance as having a storm in the Western Gulf(say near Texas) and one 400 miles west of Bermuda. That's not that unusual... and could happen in the Atlantic(and has before).

The Taiwan storm was headed for Taiwan and China.. the one near Guam is headed for Japan.

Two hurricanes at once side by side?

Two hurricanes at once side by side?

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