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Related: About this forumvideo clearly shows Hurricane top and bottom decoupling and moving apart. its dead Jim
graphic satellite images show a mass of upper clouds moving northeast and underneath a circular swirl is moving out from under it towards the west, kinda like a spider. nothing left but some rain and gusty winds to clear up. rain could still be heavy in some places
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video clearly shows Hurricane top and bottom decoupling and moving apart. its dead Jim (Original Post)
msongs
Aug 2018
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babylonsister
(171,669 posts)1. Great news! nt
BigmanPigman
(52,344 posts)2. I just saw it on MSMBC..it almost disappeared!
In just a few hours the weather systems changed and now it is barely a tropical storm. GREAT NEWS!
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)3. Whoa!
Yes. Great news.
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)4. It's called "shear."
Fascinating to watch it at work. It can, as we saw here, tear a hurricane apart in just a few hours.
You can watch it in the desert (Tucson AZ, for instance) during the monsoon season. Thunderheads start building up, get higher and higher, and then suddenly the top gets knocked off of them and streams off in another direction.