Re: This Is Driving Me Nuts
Posted by tapesit on 8/28/2011, 6:24 am
It has been alluded to in other posts and so has me thinking.  Perhaps they'll find that it has to do with area, that is, the ratio of area covered by the lowest pressure to the area covered by the entire storm.  

I'm no scientist nor even as well-educated on the subject as many of you but it makes sense to me that, if the area of lowest pressure in Irene were larger, there would be greater inertia for higher winds; therefore, it would not be only the measurement of lowest pressure itself, but in what percentage of area within the storm you find this lowest measurement.

If I'm correct, then smaller diameter storms with Irene's central minimum pressure would have greater wind speeds.  Also, larger storms, like Irene, where the area of central minimum pressure is larger as well, would have higher wind speeds.  Does that make sense to anyone else?
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