Re: Where do hurricane winds go?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:02:17 -0500,
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>+
>+ "TomPaine99" <tompaine99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>+ news:1127363932.590380.145890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>+ > Where does all of the air rushing into the low-pressure eye go? Does
>+ > it just continually swirl around the eye, or does it go somewhere? If
>+ > it just spins around the eye, what keeps it going?
>+
>+ Inertia?

Heh... ;-)

>+ And why do warm
>+ > water temperatures result in lower eye pressures?
>+
>+ I don't know, but I was wondering if the air spirals in or spirals out?

Sit down.

No, really.

The answer to your question is "yes".

Before you run off screaming, the qualifier to that "yes" is this:

The air spirals in at the bottom, and spirals out at the top. That's
why the anti-cyclone aloft (about 200mb, give or take) is important -
that's the air spiralling out.

If the air didn't spiral out, then eventually the storm would "fill
up" and collapse and die. But because of the outflow aloft, the inflow
underneath not only is possible, but required. Nature abhors a vacuum,
afterall.

>+ Also, I wonder if there is any technical way to stop a hurricane
>+ fromforming, perhaps in it's earlier stages? Some wacky ideas, but ideas
>+ nevertheless, are:

Ugh. Not a good idea, on several levels. The most basic one being: we
haven't got a clue what that'll do the weather down the road. We've
all heard the expression "a butterfly flapping its wings in China
causing X in the USofA", right?

That's like 100 million butterflies flapping together.

Not to mention that the energy generated by a Rita or Katrina is
pretty much off-the-scale. Even the largest fusion weapons known can't
hold a candle to the might of a Cat 5 hurricane.

>+ What causes the hurricanes? It's not God, because God was not in the
>+ storm. (1 K 19.11) Probably some techie teenager hacking into the weather.

Don't you know? Al Queda has a hurricane machine. Some say George Bush
has the hurricane machine. Real conspiracy theorists would have you
believe that they're acting in concert.

The truth? think "dueling hurricane machines".

"I'll see you New Orleans, and raise you Galveston."

James
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