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Re:Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose by contingo on Friday September 08, 2017 @05:29PM (#15204098)
Compare https://www.ventusky.com/?p=19.6;-77.9;4&l=wind&w=0xIAb9A9A
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Re:Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose by DigitalJack on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:32PM (#15204429)
That’s my new favorite.

It’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters.

It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.

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Re:Visualization of Harvey, Irma, and Jose by theoh on Saturday September 09, 2017 @11:08AM (#15207434)
"rising air in the eyewall follows isolines of equal angular momentum, which [also] slope outward with height" (Wikipedia)
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