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Typhoon Parma (left) and Melor (right) interacting with each other in the Philippine Sea on October 6, 2009.. The Fujiwhara effect, sometimes referred to as the Fujiwara effect, Fujiw(h)ara interaction or binary interaction, is a phenomenon that occurs when two nearby cyclonic vortices move around each other and close the distance between the circulations of their corresponding low-pressure areas.
The effect is named after Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara who was the chief of the Central Meteorological Bureau in Tokyo, Japan, shortly after the First World War. In 1921, he wrote a paper describing the ...
A cluster of tropical activity has developed across the Pacific Ocean, as three features battle for dominance and hold the potential for a phenomenon called the Fujiwhara Effect to occur.
In late December into early January, tropical storms Bentha and Christelle persisted to the east of Madagascar, undergoing the Fujiwhara effect with each other. Later in January, Dorina became the second of three intense tropical cyclones, but weakened before passing near Rodrigues.
That data shows the El Reno–Piedmont tornado and a separate cyclonic tornado, originating from the same mesocyclone, rotating in a counterclockwise fashion about a single common center (in a demonstration of the Fujiwhara effect) for several minutes, before merging at approximately 4:35 p.m. [26]: 3033 The second satellite came just minutes ...
Fujiwhara effect. On Tuesday afternoon, as the storm approached the Bay Area, the system developed two "eyes," or areas of low pressure, resulting in a "doubled-barreled blow" to San Francisco and ...
Sakuhei Fujiwhara [nb 1] (藤原 咲平, Fujiwara Sakuhei, October 29, 1884 – September 22, 1950) [sakuhei ɸɯdʑiwaɾa] was a Japanese meteorologist who became the namesake for the Fujiwhara effect. Novelist Jirō Nitta is his nephew and mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara is his grandnephew.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Twisters.. It's been nearly 30 years since Twister spiraled into theaters and changed the disaster movie game forever. Thanks to groundbreaking visual ...