2024 Hurricane Season

[Big Tyme]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere a low pressure system creates an anti-cyclone.

Only if you believe in the Coriolis Effect.

[Big Tyme]

When Hurricane Lili hit I was headed home from work and a NOAA van loaded with instruments was pulled up in the field across from my housenot a good feeling.

Having worked in Disaster services I can tell you deployments are on going right now in both the public and private sectors. Assets will typically be deployed within a couple of hours of the expected landfall area. Its about to get real.

Ominous. It was your sign!

[VObserver]

Only if you believe in the Coriolis Effect.

Having watched toilets flush in both hemispheres, I can verify the validity of the Coriolis Effect.

Actually toilets are too small to be affected by Coriolis forces, but large [low pressure] storms rotate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

[SlickRick]

In Australia, the rotation was clockwise, in the toliet.

[Turbine]

The technical term for a low pressure area ( no matter where it is ) is indeed cyclone. The technical term for a high pressure area is anti-cyclone.

What do you think is the reason the local news never used the term decades ago?

[Turbine]

When Hurricane Lili hit I was headed home from work and a NOAA van loaded with instruments was pulled up in the field across from my housenot a good feeling.

Similarities: It rained a lot the week before Lili.

With the ground already soft, it didn't take a lot to knock everything over in Abbeville

[Big Tyme]

What do you think is the reason the local news never used the term decades ago?

Maybe it has something to do with more publicly accessible meteorological info from NOAA, etc. Everyone has more access to higher-level info than in year's past.

[HelmutVII]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere a low pressure system creates an anti-cyclone.

Yes but I didn't figure on there being anyone in the southern hemisphere reading that post

[HelmutVII]

Tropical tidbits is the go to site. Dr Cowan is the man.

https://youtu.be/kbbv3k5VmrU?si=jrhCQv-jTABqKBcu