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It is always interesting to see how the impossible or incredibly rare seems to happen more often than people expect
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=0
The above page has a couple of satelitte photos for the meterologically minded.
Emps
`Hurricane` Heading Toward Southern Brazil!
A South Atlantic Tropical Cyclone!?! Most literature dealing with tropical weather would agree: hurricanes are unknown over the southern Atlantic Ocean. Yet, as of early Friday, a storm with a well-formed eye about 300 miles east of southern Brazil has all the look of a hurricane. If indeed this is a tropical cyclone, it did not begin in the usual way; rather, it began as an ordinary "cool" trough that sat over warm seas for a few days. The atmospheric setting must have been "just right" to allow this trough to strengthen markedly while altering from cool-core to warm-core, and thus tropical, in nature.
Only one similar event has been recorded, and that was by the U.S. National Hurricane Center in 1991 when a strong tropical depression that formed off the west-central African coast moved into the central South Atlantic.
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=0
The above page has a couple of satelitte photos for the meterologically minded.
Emps