September 12, 2005.
The Eddy of the Arctic Ocean Vortex, "Ophelia."
I did a drive around to take a look at the periphery of the storm. over Wilmington and eastern NC. It's interesting.
The last 'True Hurricane' I was able to experience in it's duration was "Dennis" in 1999, our first year in Wilmington.
This time I have a different perspective as October 4, 2002, the year the vortices manifested, has brought a very overt understanding of the dynamics that accompany Earth Heating under a human induced carbon dioxide blanket which is regional in many ways and not necessarily global.
The cloud patterns I witnessed today have exact likeness to what I coined as "Heat Transfer Systems" that travel from the equator to the Arctic Circle on any given day in these dynamics.
And why should it not?
These are 'eddied storms' off an Arctic Ocean Vortex that carries the same 'purpose' as the 'Heat Transfer System' clouds will deliver the same results, but, by different methods. The 'streams of heat' transfer heat to the Arctic Ocean resulting in sublimination of the ice from the air. The 'eddies' are an accelerated mechanisms that rapidly deliver heat to the oceans resulting in 'melitng' of the ice from underneath.
The only difference with these storms is that they are concentrated convection systems. So regardless of 'streams' of heat or 'eddies' of heat the purpose and mechanisms seem identical. The eddies are far more ferocious and deadly because they have high energy (heat calories) that drive them, but, in the long run these systems no matter their manifestation will be the end to biotic Earth.
