Re: Hurricane Maria to Strike Iceland???

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:09:57 +0100, purbeckview@xxxxxxxxx
(Purbeckview) wrote:

><sanctified1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Yes, but by this storm seems to deepen significantly by this time
>> tomorrow well before it gets absorbed the westerlies. If it reached the
>> required windspeed and pressure would it get its hurricane status back?
>
>Surely that depends on the "official" defintion of a hurricane? OK it
>may have winds exceeding 75mph or whatever but does it also need to have
>the classic eye etc. fed by warm sea temperatures. Many winter Atlantic
>depressions seem to qualify as hurricanes if the wind speed parameter is
>all that counts! Perhaps someone more knowledgable than I would care to
>comment?

Warm Core! Barotropic

Jim
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