National Hurricane Center, used the analogy that the movement of hurricanes is like a leaf being steered by the currents in the stream, except that for a hurricane the stream has no set boundaries. This is because there exists an axis of high pressure called the subtropical ridge that extends east-west poleward of the storm.
On the equatorward side of the subtropical ridge, general easterly winds prevail. However, if the subtropical ridge is weak - often times due to a trough in the jet stream - the tropical cyclone may turn poleward and then recurve back toward the east. On the poleward side of the subtropical ridge, westerly winds prevail thus steering the tropical cyclone back to the east. These westerly winds are the same ones that typically bring extratropical cyclones with their cold and warm fronts from west to east.
Many times it is difficult to tell whether a trough will allow the tropical cyclone to recurve back out to sea for those folks on the eastern edges of continents or whether the tropical cyclone will continue straight ahead and make landfall.
For more non-technical information on the movement of tropical "Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society". For a more detailed, technical summary on the controls on tropical cyclone motion, see Elsberry's chapter in "Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones".
Contributed by Chris Landsea What never?? Well, hardly ever. But this still leaves the question of why hurricanes are so rare in the South Atlantic. Though many people might speculate that the sea surface temperatures are too cold, the primary reasons that the South Atlantic Ocean gets few tropical cyclones are that the tropospheric near surface to mb vertical wind shear is much too strong and there is typically no inter-tropical convergence zone ITCZ over the ocean Gray Without an ITCZ to provide synoptic vorticity and convergence i.
This storm lasted about five days and drifted toward the west-southwest into the central South Atlantic. So far, there has not been a systematic study as to the conditions that accompanied this rare event.
Penn State University write up on the South Atlantic hurricane. Subject G7 How much lightning occurs in tropical cyclones? Contributed by Chris Landsea Surprisingly, not much lightning occurs in the inner core within about km or 60 mi of the tropical cyclone center. Only around a dozen or less cloud-to-ground strikes per hour occur around the eyewall of the storm, in strong contrast to an overland mid-latitude mesoscale convective complex which may be observed to have lightning flash rates of greater than per hour maintained for several hours.
Hurricane Andrew's eyewall had less than 10 strikes per hour from the time it was over the Bahamas until after it made landfall along Louisiana, with several hours with no cloud-to-ground lightning at all Molinari et al.
However, lightning can be more common in the outer cores of the storms beyond around km or 60 mi with flash rates on the order of s per hour. This lack of inner core lightning is due to the relative weak nature of the eyewall thunderstorms. Because of the lack of surface heating over the ocean ocean and the "warm core" nature of the tropical cyclones, there is less buoyancy available to support the updrafts.
Weaker updrafts lack the super-cooled water e. While there have been extreme storms in the past, recent history reflects the growing expense of hurricanes. Four of the 10 costliest hurricanes on record in the United States occurred in and Find a map of billion-dollar extreme weather events here. An important driver of the increased cost of hurricanes is increasing development in coastal areas.
In addition to damages to buildings, hurricanes threaten infrastructure, undermining energy systems, water and sewer systems, transportation, and flood management structures. Stronger hurricanes pose a significant risk to public health and human lives. Hurricane Katrina caused over deaths, and Hurricane Maria in caused deaths mostly in Puerto Rico. Disruptions to water supplies and power systems can create risk for waterborne illness, environmental contaminants, mosquito borne illnesses and cause hospitals to close or affect care for patients.
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