In the Bay of Bengal, cyclone Sidr is continuing to move north, nearly at peak intensity. Conditions in the atmosphere may induce a weakening trend in 48 to 72 hours' time, by which time the storm will be 260 miles south of Calcutta. Its direct influence extends for 130 miles at this point, so there is as yet no telling what Sidr's strength will be at the point of landfall. Bangladesh still sits in the crosshairs. 
Another cyclone is about to hatch northeast of Cairns, Australia: yep, the Southern Hemisphere season is coming to life. The embryo has just crossed Cape Denison, the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea, and once fully in the Coral Sea will blow up into a fully fledged, all song and dance tropical cyclone. You can already see the beginnings of the classical cyclone shape in the above satellite image. If you compare it to Sidr, you'll notice this one rotates counter-clockwise, as it's in the Southern Hemisphere.
You are so clever to be able to understand and comment on these sattelite picutres. I never thought of them winding a different way just because of their position in the hemisphere. Is that the same for bath water going down the plug hole? Lol!
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Very interesting with the counter-clockwise circulation. I would have never picked that up on my own.
ReplyDeleteLisa
Beautiful, really. That may sound bizarre to say, but I think that they are!
ReplyDeleteThose more people in Bangladesh. I know a missionary family in Papua and a couple more in Calcutta. Linda in WA
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