![]() The American Meteorological Society Glossary of Meteorology defines it as “the tendency of two nearby tropical cyclones to rotate cyclonically about each other as a result of their circulations' mutual advection.” The peer-review literature does document a “merger” process but not really in the manner that many people are thinking about it. #fluiddynamics.” What has happened in the past is something called the Fujiwhara Effect. 2 tropical systems cannot merge into one megastorm. My colleague Sean Sublette, a meteorologist with Climate Central, posted on Friday, “In case it comes up.No. Like the transition of Hurricane Sandy to a mid-latitude cyclone in 2012, this process was very different from the innuendo I was seeing this week. ![]() The storm regained tropical characteristics later but was never named according to. The movie loosely chronicles a 1991 event in which a Nor’easter (a mid-latitude storm deriving its energy from air mass differences) absorbed the remnants of Hurricane Grace. ![]() Many people may also think back to the movie The Perfect Storm (2000). The lead character has to get a family to safety before hurricanes merge into a hypercane. The movie 500 MPH Storm(2013) is about a high school experiment gone wildly wrong and resulting in hurricanes out of control. If it happened in a movie, it must be true right? Wrong.
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