Re: Leslie And The Northern Leewards
Posted by
Gianmarc on 9/2/2012, 8:08 am
That logic is a bit overrated. We hear it a lot, of course, but there are two caveats:
1. We hear that the more powerful a storm becomes, the more poleward it will move. That is only true if it finds a weakness in the ridge that's steering it. If it finds no weakness in the steering ridge, it will continue westward, as did cat 5 storms like Dean and Felix.
2. Weak storms are said to move more westward because they are confined to the lower levels of the atmosphere and do not respond to steering currents in the mid-to-upper levels. Sure, that, too, is feasible. Except for when they get kicked out to sea by a trough, a scenario that becomes more likely the closer we get to that time of year when cold fronts become more numerous, especially at Leslie's latitude. |
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