This post is to show sokarul and everyone else on this forum how his is wrong from the 'Hurricanes not crossing the equator' discussion found here:
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=64590.0#.VhISYflVhBcSince sokarul has predictably run away from yet another debate I'll address it here in a new topic (full text provided for context, emphasis mine, to highlight the relevant stuff).
The claim I made was this:
Cyclone Agni did it. Not to mention, it's clearly depicted on your 'map'.
Sokarul's direct response to my post:
Looks like it wasn't a cyclone yet. Either way, it seems more than a coincidence that there is an area the storms don't travel through.
My response to his post:
So? It was still cyclonic and became anticyclonic as it crossed the equator.
To which he replied:
According to wikipedia it was not a cyclone yet. If you have a problem, take it up with them. We use tropical storm and hurricane here, so the way wiki reads it was still developing when it crossed the equator. So it was more like a tropical storm and not a hurricane, yet. So that would mean it wasn't a cyclone yet.
So I asked him to explain his posts and how they applied to my statement.
That's the dodgy sokarul I remember!
Now, how about answering my last post and telling all of us what those two quotes had to do with my statement.
I'm betting you can't, and that's why you keep dodging. Justify your statements.
And his response:
Yawn.
And that's basically how the topic continues.
So, let's explain his two statements since he won't:
#1:
Looks like it wasn't a cyclone yet. Either way, it seems more than a coincidence that there is an area the storms don't travel through.
The only reason for this statement is if he believed that the storm was not cyclonic at the time of its crossing of the equator because it was not a cyclone yet.
So I replied that the storm was cyclonic at the time of the crossing and became what is known as anticyclonic after the crossing. The term
cyclonic has nothing to do with whether or not a storm is a cyclone, but if it is exibiting
cyclonic motion.
#2:
His reply to remind everyone:
According to wikipedia it was not a cyclone yet. If you have a problem, take it up with them. We use tropical storm and hurricane here, so the way wiki reads it was still developing when it crossed the equator. So it was more like a tropical storm and not a hurricane, yet. So that would mean it wasn't a cyclone yet.
Let's look at this piece by piece:
According to wikipedia it was not a cyclone yet
The only reason for this statement, is again, if he believes a storm is only cyclonic if it is called a cyclone.
We use tropical storm and hurricane here, so the way wiki reads it was still developing when it crossed the equator.
So the only reason for this statement is if he believes a developing storm can't exhibit cyclonic motion.
So it was more like a tropical storm and not a hurricane, yet.
This statement shows how little he actually knows about tropical storms. He believes a tropical storm is not cyclonic.
So that would mean it wasn't a cyclone yet.
This is at least the fourth time he has stated that Cyclone Agni was not a cyclone when it passed the Equator. This can only mean that he strongly believes a storm will not be cyclonic until it is a cyclone or a hurricane.
So, since he specifically stated this:
So it was more like a tropical storm and not a hurricane, yet.
That means he does not know that it is at the tropical storm stage in which a storm begins to show the typical cyclonic shape of a cyclone. Which Wikipedia is happy to point out:
Tropical storm
A tropical storm is an organized system of strong thunderstorms with a defined surface circulation and maximum sustained winds between 34 knots (63 km/h) and 64 knots (119 km/h). At this point, the distinctive cyclonic shape starts to develop, although an eye is not usually present.
And, on the Wiki page for Cyclone Agni:
While the system was organizing, the center crossed the equator to reach about 0.5° S, thus becoming an anticyclonic circulation in the southern hemisphere.
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However according to RSMC La Reunion the precursor low to Cyclone Agni, moved into the Southern Hemisphere and became an anticyclone as it had kept its counter-clockwise circulation
tl;dr version: sokarul was wrong, yet again.