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On August 24, 1974, the NOAA-3 satellite captured this pinwheeling dance between two eastern Pacific tropical cyclones, Hurricane Ione and Hurricane Kirsten.

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English: On August 24, 1974, the NOAA-3 satellite captured this pinwheeling dance between two eastern Pacific tropical cyclones, Hurricane Ione and Hurricane Kirsten. NOAA-3 was part of the third generation of NOAA's polar-orbiting satellites, and from this low-Earth orbit, it caught a meteorological phenomenon called the Fujiwhara Effect. This effect can happen when two tropical cyclones pass close enough to each other that they begin to move around a common center. Sometimes one storm will merge into the other one, or occasionally they merely spin around each other for a while before shooting off on their own paths, as Ione and Kirsten did.
Date Taken on 9 December 2020, 20:14:56
Source Hurricane Fujiwhara Effect, 1974
Author NOAASatellites
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NOAASatellites at https://flickr.com/photos/125201706@N06/50700002823. It was reviewed on 20 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

20 February 2024

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This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.

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