Two storms set to undergo bizarre ‘Fujiwhara’ dance, leaving only 1 standing in the end

Tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, are nature’s most massive and powerful storms. They can span hundreds of miles in width and are so fearsome that they can wipe out entire coastal communities in a matter of hours. 

These storms may be mighty, but they can be particularly fickle in their movements, and on rare occasions, they can display some truly bizarre — even aggressive — behavior when they get a little too close to each other. 

In a dance known as the Fujiwhara effect, tropical cyclones can swirl around a fixed point between one another, with one storm’s winds often stripping the other of its densely packed core of towering thunderstorms, leaving it a pale shadow of its former self.  Read more…

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