Figure 11.7
Figure 11.7.
In a pied-piper procession of storms, formidable Hurricane
Edouard (the large cloud swirl off the southeastern coast
of the U.S.) leads Tropical Storm Fran, soon-to-be-downgraded
Tropical Storm Gustav (joined to Fran by an umbilical cord
of clouds), and a tropical disturbance off the west coast
of Africa (the gossamer swirl of clouds that would
eventually mature into Hurricane Hortense). This pied-piper
procession was almost a straight-flush of tropical systems
(hurricane, tropical storm, tropical depression, tropical
disturbance). It would have been had Gustav been downgraded
to a depression at the time of this photograph
(courtesy of NRL-Monterey).