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of course as we always do here at lbq I'll wrap up the video by responding to
some of your comments from a previous video but before that we need to talk
about what would happen if two hurricanes fused with each other well
this isn't so much a hypothetical question like a lot of the questions on
here but actually a very valid question that has happened in the past and will
most likely happen sometime again it's not something that happens too often and
really depending on the size of the two storms can completely change the storm's
route or do nothing at all we're going to explain everything that could happen
if two hurricanes collided something called the Fujiwara effect that's right
there's actually a name for this phenomena if you'd call it that and it's
the Fujiwara effect named after Saku he Fujiwara the Japanese meteorologist who
was the first to describe the effects of two storms colliding now the Fujiwara
effect covers all storms colliding not just hurricanes we're talking hurricanes
cyclones typhoons tropical depressions and so on but for this video
specifically we're going to be covering what would happen if two hurricanes
fused although the effects would most likely be the same across the board let
us know if you'd want to know what would happen if two Cyclones collided in the
comments down below now I'm sure you guys want me to say if two hurricanes
collided you would get a massive destructive hurricane that's going to
absolutely destroy the world I mean it's possible but the odds are
that of slim to none I'd buy a lottery ticket first but the idea of two
hurricanes merging into one massive storm is definitely a possibility and
has happened most recently in 2005 when Hurricane Wilma absorbed tropical storm
alpha it also happened in 1995 when hurricane iris interacted with hurricane
Humberto and then absorbed tropical storm Karen Oh Karen but notice how iris
and Humberto interacted with each other but one didn't absorb the other that's
because when two hurricanes collide they don't necessarily always absorb one
another but let's get back to basics for two hurricanes to collide with each
other there needs to be no more than a 900 foot distance from one to the other
meaning if two hurricanes are a thousand feet apart from each other they'll have
absolutely no effect on each other or so we think
I'm sure it could affect the storm but for anything to really go down they need
to be within 900 feet of each other and that's the
maxximum so when the two storms collide what actually happens well as previously
mentioned it really depends on the storm size and power if you have two equally
strong hurricanes they dance as people call it around the common midpoint
between the two meaning they never go directly into one another they just move
in ways that people call dancing around the most center point between the two
storms eventually they get tired of dancing and go their own ways this can
cause a storm to change its original trajectory which is what happened in
2018 when Hurricane Helen changed the direction of tropical storm Joyce
although Helen was much stronger than the tropical storm it didn't absorb
Joyce just redirected it to the east however if a less powerful hurricane
gets close enough to a larger more powerful storm the smaller one can
definitely get engulfed by the large storm of course this makes the stronger
hurricane even more powerful it doesn't necessarily make it wider but it can
help strengthen a hurricane which is losing its power or it can literally
just get absorbed and not make it more powerful at all it doesn't work as I'm
sure most of you think it does for example if a hurricane with maximum
winds of 115 miles per hour collided with another hurricane with max winds of
130 miles per hour it wouldn't form a storm with max winds of 245 miles per
hour it would literally just add more fuel to the fire
that is the 130 mile per hour storm so what does this mean well although
hurricanes fusing doesn't happen all that often when it does it can help
prolong the life of a hurricane this of course could be problematic because we
know the type of damage hurricanes are capable of doing and with the rate at
which hurricanes seem to be steadily increasing due to climate change we may
be in store for this occurrence to happen more often something that
wouldn't be beneficial to us in any way even if two hurricanes don't necessarily
fuse the idea of them changing the direction is quite terrifying if you ask
me now as always I love hearing from you guys so please drop some comments down
below with your thoughts on the Fujiwara effect I personally find it incredibly
interesting but also kind of scary although it's good to know that we're
not going to have a massive mega storm that takes over the entire planet the
fact that hurricanes can redirect each other if they come close enough because
they dance around the most central point is definitely concerning to say the
least I mean we don't get hurricanes here in Toronto but I don't know what
would happen if we did maybe that can be our next lbq let us know in the comments
down below if you'd be interested in seeing that for now let's reply to some
comments from the video what if the Deinosuchus didn't go extinct
masterchief said what if you stopped making us die
Master Chief a lot of the videos I've done lately it doesn't affect the human
race like great white sharks doubling in size this video the dine of sook is
coming back to life it doesn't you know kill everybody so a handful of people
might be affected because you know they're in the water surfing or
something like that but for everyday people that live on land like us we
don't die we're all good Smith boy 1010 said I thought they
misspelled dinosaurs really bad no we we spelled it right it was Dinah Lucas it
was a type of dinosaur that obviously went extinct or I guess crocodile we got
out a whole team here that checks over everything and of course we are humans
we make mistakes I'll be honest I stumbled like four or five times will
record in this video but the editors make me look good because they cut it
together and there's people on the backend that do the titles and the
thumbnails we got a great production team here that makes sure everything is
done perfectly every now and then yeah we make mistakes but I mean we're humans
it happens but in this case no mistake was made the Deinosuchus is an animal
that went extinct and that was the name of it so they titled it properly and
that's gonna do it for this one guys I've been your host Jerrod Bronstein
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