Another storm in SW Gulf of Mexico with 90% chance to develop into cyclone in next 2 days.

[fleur-de-lisa]

Eurpoean forecast models show it going northwest to south Texas coast before making a turn toward New Orleans next week.

American models show it futzing around the Gulf before dissipating.

I am so over 2020.

Link to tweet

[soothsayer]

1. What's with cyclones all of a sudden? These are amurican hurricanes!

I actually like cyclone and typhoon too.

Just hearing the word ‘cyclone’ more recently and wondering what’s up.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. I had to look it up:

"A tropical cyclone is a generic term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has closed, low-level circulation."

[soothsayer]

3. But can a cyclone develop into a cyclone?

[USALiberal]

4. Found this.........

The weakest tropical cyclones are called tropical depressions. If a depression intensifies such that its maximum sustained winds reach 39 miles per hour, the tropical cyclone becomes a tropical storm. Once a tropical cyclone reaches maximum sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or higher, it is then classified as a hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone, depending upon where the storm originates in the world. In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a typhoon. Meanwhile, in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, the generic term tropical cyclone is used, regardless of the strength of the wind associated with the weather system.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cyclone.html#:~:text=The%20only%20difference%20between%20a,location%20where%20the%20storm%20occurs.&text=Once%20a%20tropical%20cyclone%20reaches,storm%20originates%20in%20the%20world.