

#fluiddynamics.” What has happened in the past is something called the Fujiwhara Effect. 2 tropical systems cannot merge into one megastorm.

My colleague Sean Sublette, a meteorologist with Climate Central, posted on Friday, “In case it comes up.No. Like the transition of Hurricane Sandy to a mid-latitude cyclone in 2012, this process was very different from the innuendo I was seeing this week. The storm regained tropical characteristics later but was never named according to.

The movie loosely chronicles a 1991 event in which a Nor’easter (a mid-latitude storm deriving its energy from air mass differences) absorbed the remnants of Hurricane Grace. Many people may also think back to the movie The Perfect Storm (2000). The lead character has to get a family to safety before hurricanes merge into a hypercane. The movie 500 MPH Storm(2013) is about a high school experiment gone wildly wrong and resulting in hurricanes out of control. If it happened in a movie, it must be true right? Wrong.
