Cybermonkey
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im not inbedding otherwise Ian will have my guts for garters
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Hurricane_Epsilon_4_Dec_2005.jpg
detail though 
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abdus
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wow, and the eye is well formed....did it hit Australia?
[Edited on 20-05-2006 by abdus]
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CorsAsh
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Tempted to use that to make an environment for one of my renders, reckon it could look good 
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by abdus
wow, and the eye is well formed....did it hit Australia?
[Edited on 20-05-2006 by abdus]
no thats Hurricane Epsilon, hence the file name  it was an Atlantic hurricane from 2005
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abdus
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
quote:
Originally posted by abdus
wow, and the eye is well formed....did it hit Australia?
[Edited on 20-05-2006 by abdus]
no thats Hurricane Epsilon, hence the file name it was an Atlantic hurricane from 2005
oops...my bad
sorry...HAHAHAHA...i was a bit shocked when i saw the eye of it...but tbh there has been some in the indian ocean that has travelled from diego Garcia to east Africa...so wouldnt have been a surprise...
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John
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There are 4 gig nasa ones doing the rounds.
Try and open one of them up.
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Cybermonkey
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most atlantic born hurricanes are formed thousands of miles away off the coast of west africa, and travel as depressions across the water, gaining momentum as they gather moisture and heat from the tropics. they travel thousands of miles, as do the asia pacific typhoons/cyclones. Most of Australias cyclones are born in the Pacific ocean, travelling west and hitting the top end, some are also created in the Indian Ocean which then head south, but rarely make a hard impact. as the cyclones near the equator, the Coriolis Effect reduces and actually weakens the cyclone by reducing its rotation speed. its a kind of built in protection system that stops deep depressions from growing out of proportion exponentially.
Sometimes though, conditions can be totally perfect, like in the case of Super Typhoon Tip, the most powerful storm ever witnessed in human history. Tip was gigantic, and had a low pressure reading of 870hpa, the lowest ever recorded natural pressure. it had 10min sustained winds of 210mph, not gusts, but constant sustained wind speed. gusts were over 270mph.
she was big
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