Hurican Looks Back Into You

[omorka]

Snagged an image of the current tropical weather situation (actually, from about an hour ago at the time of this posting) from Weather Underground.

The centers of the storms aren't at exactly the same latitude, but it's close enough. It sure looks like they're looking back at the satellite . . .

I just love that the existence of two tropical storms/hurricanes right next to each other means that our predictions for where either one of them will go are little better than vague guesses. :-/

Oh, and the semi-circular cloud formation on the far right of the photo is Invest 97 deciding whether it wants to get its act together and spin up into a tropical depression.

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Another good site

[yermie.livejournal.com]

www.stormpulse.net (http://www.stormpulse.com/tropical-storm-gustav-2008)

They have some very good features on their site.

[teegarden.livejournal.com]

Now, would that be "hurican" or "hurricane" ... ? :)

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

huracán

[omorka.livejournal.com]

"Hurican" or "Huracan" is the Anglicization of the name of the Caribbean god of tropical storms after whom hurricanes are named (that being a further Anglicization, of course).

ah!

[teegarden.livejournal.com]

Now I is knowing the spelling. And I am amused that, each time the weather service names such a storm, it is the equivalent of saying Michael Andrea, Michael Billy, Michael Charles, etc. A god can get a tad confused that way. :)

Re: ah!

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

So can George Foreman's children...