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Tropical Storm Cristobal Tropical cyclone Cristobal circulated with its mid point just offshore on the east coast of the US, but it has not become any better organized since the afternoon of Saturday, in fact winds on the North Carolina and South Carolina coastline were quite light. Cristobal brushed the coast on Sunday with only minor impact on land (locally heavy showers and windy weather, but be wary of rip currents if you are out in the ocean!). A tropical cyclone is a system characterized by a low pressure storm centre and numerous thunderstorms that produce powerful winds and often devastating, flooding rain. A tropical cyclone feeds on heat released when moist air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapour held in the damp air. These storms are fuelled by a completely different heat mechanism than other cyclonic formations such as nor'easters, European depressions, and polar lows, leading to them being classed as "warm core" storm systems. The phrase "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form pretty much wholly in tropical regions of the earth, and their formation in maritime tropical air masses. The phrase "cyclone" refers to such storms' cyclonic nature, with anti-clockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise rotation in the Southern. Dependent upon their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by other names, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression or just plain and simply cyclone. Cristobal, however, brought back thoughts of Alex in 2004, which was in an almost identical position, slipping parallel to the coast and delivering a much stronger punch than had seemed likely initially. The storm suddenly became a Cat 2 hurricane, its storm centre adjacent to the shore, its western eye-wall clipped the Outer Banks. Ocracoke Island was hit particularly hard. Fortunately Cristobal promised much, but delivered little! And that, my friends, is a good thing. Cristobal did look good on radar, with a typical hook and even starting to rotate at it's core but as it ran out of energy the main damage came from the line of storms causing strong winds along the outer edges.
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