Wilmas strange windfield

This is the general tropical discussion area. Anyone can take their shot at predicting a storms path.

Moderator: S2k Moderators

Forum rules

The posts in this forum are NOT official forecasts and should not be used as such. They are just the opinion of the poster and may or may not be backed by sound meteorological data. They are NOT endorsed by any professional institution or STORM2K. For official information, please refer to products from the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service.

Help Support Storm2K
Message
Author
Jim Cantore

Wilmas strange windfield

#1 Postby Jim Cantore » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:11 pm

Wilmas strongest winds as we know were on its southern side

Do you think that may be bacause of the angle she came in on or was it just a strange windfield?
0 likes   

Scorpion

#2 Postby Scorpion » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:11 pm

Angle.
0 likes   

User avatar
Aslkahuna
Professional-Met
Professional-Met
Posts: 4550
Joined: Thu Feb 06, 2003 5:00 pm
Location: Tucson, AZ
Contact:

#3 Postby Aslkahuna » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:49 pm

The strongest winds are generally found in the right semicircle of a moving storm. A storm moving E-ENE will have the strongest winds south of the track. That said, other environmental factors can result in departures from that scenario such as a cold front interacting with the storm which was the reason why many locations experienced their strongest winds in the backside eyewall of Wilma as she passed over FL.

Steve
0 likes   


Return to “Talkin' Tropics”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 58 guests