May 30, 2006.
0930z.
Current water vapor satellite from UNISYS. Click on above link for 12 hour loop. Thank you UNISYS.
The vortex is at higher altitudes from the other air movement. The underlying air movement is primarily the same from west to east. The 'vortices' culminate at much higher altitudes nearing the lower stratosphere and 'ionically charged' by elemental carbon and oxygen at the interface of the stratosphere and troposphere. Over the years since the manifestation of the first vortex of October 4, 2002 the intermingling of gases has become nearly a 'layer' of air all by itself where these monsters call home.
