By Joseph J. George
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A frequent pattern showing a double injection. This occurs usually with deep cyclones which move off taking with them a cyclonic injection close to the center but gradually leaving behind a straight line or even an anticyclonically curved one. The distance between the center of the storm and the southernmost center of injection should be used to determine if new cyclogenesis will occur, This sort of double occurrence also happens sometimes when two maxima of wind speeds are separated by distinctly lower values.
10 ι· 15 0 20 5 4 s S 20 β 4l Z 35 9 7 _ ι· • 1 3 •t• 1 5 4 "·\ • β f\ 10 5 Λ · 9 13 10 β ,ββ^ II β ο ιο 5 •\ 4 \ 4 10 \ 2. 73 20 25 30 35 RANGE OF THE INJECTION f C ) 1 FIG. 9. The initial intensity of new cyclone formation determined by the first plateau of intensity values after the new cyclone forms. If a continual increase in intensity is noted, the first measurable intensity is chosen. The abscissa represents the temperature range of the optimum streamline through the isotherm ribbon. The ordinate values are the average wind speed along the optimum streamline weighted by eye according to the intensity of thermal gradient in each section.
Many analyses showed the small storm discussed in Fig. 26 moving northwest and causing the snow at New York, but a careful check clearly shows that it actually followed the path indicated, while an entirely new storm formed offshore as indicated to cause the New York snow. Prediction was possible from this chart. CYCLOGENESIS: OCEANS AND WEST COASTS 53 VI. CYCLOGENESIS OVER OCEANS AND WEST COASTS OF CONTINENTS 3 The basic predictor of cyclogenesis over central and eastern oceanic areas and the western portions of continents is the flow at 500 mb.