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And now for the weirdest tropical weather story of 2015: We have this peculiar low straddling the equator (black line), a little E of the International Date Line. A couple of days ago, it was centered just S of the equator with distinct *anticyclonic* rotation, and one computer model analyzed winds near 35 knots. It's since inched *above* the equator (to about 1 degree N), and it's still rotating the same way—but now that's called *cyclonic*. This is kind of weird, because conventional wisdom says 1) tropical cyclones can't form at the equator and 2) they have to turn clockwise S of the equator and counterclockwise N of the equator. But this sassy little system is breaking the "rules" and making a mockery of the Coriolis effect—and all we can do is sit here and angrily watch.
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Yes, this system has abused and disrespected the very notion that a cyclone's rotation is 100% the result of the Coriolis effect, suggesting it's all more complicated than that. Anyhoo, it's expected to move slowly NW and it may develop a little.
https://www.facebook.com/iCyclone/?fref=nf
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And now for the weirdest tropical weather story of 2015: We have this peculiar low straddling the equator (black line), a little E of the International Date Line. A couple of days ago, it was centered just S of the equator with distinct *anticyclonic* rotation, and one computer model analyzed winds near 35 knots. It's since inched *above* the equator (to about 1 degree N), and it's still rotating the same way—but now that's called *cyclonic*. This is kind of weird, because conventional wisdom says 1) tropical cyclones can't form at the equator and 2) they have to turn clockwise S of the equator and counterclockwise N of the equator. But this sassy little system is breaking the "rules" and making a mockery of the Coriolis effect—and all we can do is sit here and angrily watch.
grin-emoticon
Yes, this system has abused and disrespected the very notion that a cyclone's rotation is 100% the result of the Coriolis effect, suggesting it's all more complicated than that. Anyhoo, it's expected to move slowly NW and it may develop a little.
https://www.facebook.com/francois.debets.7/