Many supercells split, especially early in their lifetimes. The faint but growing crack in the cloud material, above a small rain core and the center of the storm’s collective base, reveals this. Even though this storm started small, it had no problem dividing itself in two like some giant protozoan, thanks to surrounding winds that supported both leftward and rightward moving storms. The reasons for storm splits involve concepts of fluid dynamics—both in the original storm and its environment—with which I won’t bludgeon you here. But in the northern hemisphere, the left movers tend to spin clockwise (anticyclonic) and the right movers turn counterclockwise (cyclonic). The splitting process continued…
3 E Corn OK (30 Mar 8) Looking W
35.3774, -98.73Splitting Storm: Part 1
Many supercells split, especially early in their lifetimes. The faint but growing crack in the cloud material, above a small rain core and the center of the storm’s collective base, reveals this. Even though this storm started small, it had no problem dividing itself in two like some giant protozoan, thanks to surrounding winds that supported both leftward and rightward moving storms. The reasons for storm splits involve concepts of fluid dynamics—both in the original storm and its environment—with which I won’t bludgeon you here. But in the northern hemisphere, the left movers tend to spin clockwise (anticyclonic) and the right movers turn counterclockwise (cyclonic). The splitting process continued…
3 E Corn OK (30 Mar 8) Looking W
35.3774, -98.73