I’m looking at the GOES-East for the Gulf of Mexico and I began to noctice something that intruiged me. The outter edges of the storm appear to flair outward clockwise. I understand the coriolis effect but that explains the rotation of a hurricane in the northern hemisphere as a whole. My question is, why do the edges and tops of the hurricane appear to spin clockwise, agaist the storm, as if the storm is under a high pressure? TIA!
In: Planetary Science
Because a hurricane can not hold onto a “single cloud” indefinitely; bits are always being expelled from the main storm structure.
As things are expelled they have different momentum and can then appear to be moving opposite the storm; or in fact other winds or pressure move the cloud in opposite direction
We can see this on a normal day where lower clouds move in a different direction than higher clounds
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