How strong could a hurricane get if it was always daytime?

[Clint_TX]

Taking away the night...array of mirrors in orbit to focus sunlight on the cold cloud tops of a storm during the night.

hmm...

[terstorm1012]

I've seen a variety of models done with hypothetical planets that are tidally locked to their star (they only show one face to their local sun)...that guess that there would be hypercanes.

not possible on Earth.

[Stratosphere747]

If I remember correctly, Wilma peaked during the dead of night...

My tired butt was here looking at the recon reports with my mouth to the floor at 3am....

[Clint_TX]

im thinking it would be a bit weaker

[HurricaneHunter914]

I heard canes get more convection overnight so sunlight is just a minimal factor in this.

[Clint_TX]

the idea would be to create weaker canes

[Clint_TX]

there would be no night if the sunlight was strong enough

[HurricaneHunter914]

I think trying to rearrange the light of the sun with mirrors to make a cane weaker would be suicide.

[Audrey2Katrina]

Well the axis of Uranus is tilted at about 90 degrees, so while it does rotate, it does keep the ummm, would you call it northern hemisphere?? anyway, alway pointed to the sun. Then again, Uranus is a Jovian planet and not a terrestrial, and while the gas giants have storms (such as Jupiter and Neptune have both been shown to possess) I don't know that Uranus has any at all, and there haven't been many probes to focus on that anomalous planet.

A2K

[Clint_TX]

anything tilted towards the sun all the time would heat the entire atmosphere...I'm talking about just spot heating during a storm, I know it's a paradox, but it might work

[Jim Cantore]

Most rapid intensifications I've seen have occured at night.

Katrina
Wilma
Opal
Dennis

And many others before my time

[wxmann_91]

Not very. During the evening and night, the air cools faster than the ground, so that maximizes instability and a convective maximum, which is key to many intensification phases.