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defacto7

(13,485 posts)
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 12:35 PM Sep 2017

Question about Harvey/Irma present trajectory..

Looking at Wunderground this morning I saw an interesting development and I'm curious.

Tropical depression Harvey is still a thing heading NE top wind speed around 35mph. Post tropical depression Irma is also still around heading N. Top winds 35mph. They are heading for a collision course in the next days. Harvey's moving slower but both around the same intensity.

Does anyone have an idea what the possible outcome is? Will they join, push away from each other, cancel out, increase rainfall or strength? I just don't have a clue.

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/?mr=1

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Question about Harvey/Irma present trajectory.. (Original Post) defacto7 Sep 2017 OP
I tought Harvey was long gone - didn't see anything about Harvey at your link rurallib Sep 2017 #1
It's there.. defacto7 Sep 2017 #2
looks to me like the inset picture is a mistake rurallib Sep 2017 #3
Ok, I'm convinced but then there was that map... defacto7 Sep 2017 #4

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
1. I tought Harvey was long gone - didn't see anything about Harvey at your link
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 01:04 PM
Sep 2017

Jose is wandering around out in the Atlantic and Irma seems headed for Memphis after which it seems to fall apart.

Maybe I am missing something.
this is my favorite site these days:
www.windy.com/

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
2. It's there..
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 01:21 PM
Sep 2017

I like windy too...

Just looked. Its there. Just slide down past the world map then it's the 3rd storm map below that. The names are in the upper left corner of the map. "Tropical depression Harvey". It shows its trajectory over the next 3 days.

Map order: World, Irma, Jose, Harvey...

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
3. looks to me like the inset picture is a mistake
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 05:43 PM
Sep 2017

when you click on it the storm track it brings up is Irma.

I looked and it is hard to follow Harvey to bitter end which IIRC came before Labor Day in Ohio or West Virginia. Seeing it fizzle out wasn't news. I looked every place I could think of and most reports were only talking about Harvey as a hurricane or tropical storm but no one followed it to the end.

So the best I can do is link to a map from the National Hurricane center from Aug.30 that shows Harvey dumping rain on Kentucky on Sept. 1st. Were Harvey still sitting there on top of Kentucky nearly 2 weeks later it would probably be in the news.

Really got no other way to convince you that Harvey is long gone:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?cone

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
4. Ok, I'm convinced but then there was that map...
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 07:10 PM
Sep 2017

Must be overlooked by WU. It's not following any track of Irma... old data on top of.... old data???

Thanks. It seemed odd.

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