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msongs

(67,441 posts) Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:16 PM Aug 2018

video 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 OP

Great news! nt babylonsister Aug 2018 #1

I just saw it on MSMBC..it almost disappeared! BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #2

Whoa! Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #3

It's called "shear." JayhawkSD Aug 2018 #4

babylonsister

(171,090 posts)

1. Great news! nt

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:32 PM

Aug 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)

2. I just saw it on MSMBC..it almost disappeared!

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:56 PM

Aug 2018

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!

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat Aug 25, 2018, 08:57 AM

Aug 2018

Yes. Great news.

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)

4. It's called "shear."

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:22 AM

Aug 2018

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.

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