This is the 'Wilma' system as recorded on the Tropical Gulf Satellite. The entire 'heat/energy' balance of THE SYSTEM never diminished. As "Wilma" circulated around the Yucatan Peninsula it started to slow down. While it was over land/terra firma it was exchanging heat with the land with the ocean. As the system changed it's dynamics in velocity it changed it's ability to transfer it's heat from the troposphere to the oceans. "Tropical Storm Alpha" manifested because "Wilma" started to diminish in it's strength. As the storms carried out it's 'geophysics' purpose they moved into the Atlantic together and then when over open ocean rejoined into one system.
The Perfect Storm many people 'felt' would occur between these two 'eddies/storms' and the aire masse over North America would never happen because they were not the same system with the same density. The aire masse over the land had a cold front and would not easily 'mix' with the heat driven storms now racing up the Atlantic. There may have been some residual 'moisture' left in the area as "Wilma" blew by that added to the snow storm in the northeast. The purposes of these fronts were completely different and their only similar characteristic was the fact they were aire masses.
