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Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition. …but th
by baq 3y ago
Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition.
…but they’ll be fine with a ‘a big cold cyclone’ I guess ;)
- chimeracoder 3y ago> Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition. Well, it's literally true: a hurricane is a tropical cyclone, and a nor'easter is an extratropical cyclone. A nor'easter is literally the "cold" counterpart of a hurricane!
- foobarian 3y agoSo like, the Nor'easter is a cryo-cyclone and the regular hurricanes are pyro-cyclones!