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UNISYS Visual GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
This is the way I see it. I view it as a water vapor transport system. Each vortex is fueling the one north of it with water vapor from the Equator.
There is a votex over the North Atlantic, another over the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, the one with velocity is the tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, there is one over the Yucatan and the water vapor trail continues into the east Pacific.
They are all in oscillation of each other with the largest in the North Atantic pulling water vapor from all four.
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UNISYS North and West Hemisphere Visual Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
A straight line can be drawn between the three lower vortexes low pressure centers as if they were a 'street of vortexes.' They have that dynamic. They are related. The degree the Gulf vortex accelerates and decelerates is dependent on the system, not its own autonomy.
"Houston, we have a problem."
4:18 PM
6.24.12
Tropical Storm Debby's track shifts in Gulf of Mexico (click here)
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The fourth storm of the season formed in the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. Tropical Storm Debby is putting leaders on alert and keeping forecasters on their toes.
As of 4pm Sunday, the storm was located at 28.4°N 85.8°W -- about 200 miles east-southeast of the Mississippi River -- and moving northeast at 3mph with maximum sustained winds of 60mph. Forecasters said the threat to Louisiana has lessened and they canceled all Tropical Storm Warnings.
"We're still not out of the woods. Any slight variation in the track of the storm could put us back in its direct path," ABC13 Meteorologist David Tillman said. "It is still far too early to call this storm, so stay tuned."...
