"JPG" wrote in message
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I just had this animation shown to me:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/cmoll/cmoll.html

It's interesting, to me at least, how all the tropical Atlantic stuff
seems to originate near the horn of Africa. Hurricane Ivan's later
life cycle can be seen clearly, culminating in the later images in the
cloud that is over us at the moment.

Love it! Now I want one for an entire year!

What is the nature of the tropical storm/hurricane like features
that seem to originate from the Panama region and drift out south
of Mexico in the first in the half of the sequence? I have vaguely
heard that you get hurricanes in this region but of course due to the
topography they are unlikely to ever make landfall.

Col
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