My Opera90Q - South Atlantic Tropical Cyclone
Friday, March 12, 2010 9:02:48 PM
Everybody is talking about the weather, but this time it is really something special. A tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic Ocean. In the North Atlantic there are several every year (here known as hurricanes), but this is only the second time ever that one has been observed in the South Atlantic (the first time was in 2004).
Normally the water off the South-American coast is too cold for tropical cyclones. They like it hot, 26.5°C or above.
In other oceanic areas where tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons etc. all according to ocean) rule the waves, they get a name following an official list. This is not the case in the South Atlantic, where they are practically non-existant. The one in 2004 was non the less called "Catarina" (because it made landfall on 28 March 2004 near the town of Torres in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina), and this one goes under the name of “90Q”, if you can call that a name.
You may notice that the rotation is opposite that of the North American Hurricanes - rotation of cyclones is counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Now you wouldn’t expect it otherwise, would you, but of course there is already some debate as to whether this storm was actually a true hurricane. as far as i am concerned a hurricane is nothing to be jealous about!
In Danish:
Normally the water off the South-American coast is too cold for tropical cyclones. They like it hot, 26.5°C or above.
In other oceanic areas where tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons etc. all according to ocean) rule the waves, they get a name following an official list. This is not the case in the South Atlantic, where they are practically non-existant. The one in 2004 was non the less called "Catarina" (because it made landfall on 28 March 2004 near the town of Torres in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina), and this one goes under the name of “90Q”, if you can call that a name.
You may notice that the rotation is opposite that of the North American Hurricanes - rotation of cyclones is counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Now you wouldn’t expect it otherwise, would you, but of course there is already some debate as to whether this storm was actually a true hurricane. as far as i am concerned a hurricane is nothing to be jealous about!
- http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/nsfc-sos031110.php
- http://www.physorg.com/news187554727.html
- http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/south_atlantic_tropical_storm_90q_moving_brazil_150652.html
- http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/south_atlantic_cyclone.html
In Danish:
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