Key Points
According to the National Weather Service, when two hurricanes spinning in the same direction pass close enough to each other, they dance intensely around their common center..
Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara, the chief of the Central Meteorological Bureau in Tokyo, wrote a paper in 1921 describing the motions of "vortices" in water..
The National Hurricane Center has said that Tropical Storms Philippe and Rina were about 575 miles apart from each other as of Friday morning..
In a post written on social media platform X, Miami-based meteorologist John Morales, said that the two storms are "expected to pivot around each other, with one becoming more dominant..
The Fujiwhara Effect is the most common phenomenon with tropical cyclones such as typhoons or hurricanes, but it also occurs in other cases...
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