re: Laura - President Trump visits Lake Charles, Louisiana for Hurricane Response Update

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So... this is actually a serious question... could the systems actually absorb into one another and form a massive storm? Or, would they work like sticking opposite ends of magnets together and push each other away (further east and further west)? How does this work? I don't recall seeing two systems in the smaller gulf next to each other around the same time frame.

ETA: who tf keeps downvoting me? This is actually a serious question. The above post talks about in the past there has only been two occasions where this has happened. But what did the storms do?

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Fujiwhara Effect

When two hurricanes spinning in the same direction pass close enough to each other, they begin an intense dance around their common center. If one hurricane is a lot stronger than the other, the smaller one will orbit it and eventually come crashing into its vortex to be absorbed. Two storms closer in strength can gravitate towards each other until they reach a common point and merge, or merely spin each other around for a while before shooting off on their own paths. But often, the effect is additive when hurricanes come together — we usually end up with one massive storm instead of two smaller ones.

Last week, we saw this rare phenomena happen twice; once between hurricanes Hilary and Irwin in the East Pacific and another between typhoon Noru and tropical storm Kulap in the West Pacific.

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I'm gonna wait for the edit where he changes the 2nd "west" to "wet"

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That post isn't about 2 storms combining. It is about 2 storms being in the gulf at the same time.

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