Katrina Pulled by the sun

The gravitational pull on the mass of a storm system or a plume from a volcano by the sun or moon is a predictable phenomena. By chance, such an event was recorded by a NOAA geostationary weather satellite. On August 29th 2005 as hurricane Katrina moved toward the Louisiana coast a series of visible photographs from a NOAA geostationary satellite were recorded every thirty minutes. At about 11:40 universal time, sunlight illuminated the cloud tops of Katrina, simultaneously a gravity wave swept across the edge of the hurricane. In response to this gravitational tug, the hurricane deflected in the direction of the sun in excess of one half the diameter of the eye wall. That deflection was recorded by a series of frames taken every thirty minutes by the NOAA weather satellite. The small portion of each of those photos has been magnified and a stationary "red" reference point inserted on each land point. A "green" hurricane eye center reference point was inserted at the center of the eye wall for each of the frames. The gravity pull on the Katrina mass occurred about five minutes before frame number 1145Z was taken. The concentrated edge of the storm system rapidly dispersed into a wide distribution of mass and was no longer appealing as a source for gravitation attraction by the sun. Katrina acted as a giant gyroscope and returned to its former track. the sun's gravitation influence on the hurricane made it appeared to pivot around the "red" reference point as result of that influence.
The influence of the gravitation force of the sun may only last a few minutes, usually only while the sun is on the horizon. Note the following video when the sun pulls the heavey arctic air at sunrise in Alaska.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbrnE7RQ7I

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[AmishRakeFight85]

This is a load of crap. Hurricanes move based on areas of high and low pressure. They are not influenced by the sun's gravity.

[EternalEnigma314]

What you're seeing here is the hurricane going through what's called an Eye Wall Replacement Cycle. The "so called" movement of the eye was simply new thunderstorms forming around the eye. This cycle of eye wall replacement is common in cat 4 and 5 hurricanes. Another factor which explains the eye's "jump" to the east was that the hurricane was rapidly weakening. During the final three hours before it's landfall, Katrina's eye wall took heavy damage due to in influx of dry air into......

[BoomRoll]

@EternalEnigma314 That's right. Of course the Sun's gravity has to do with weather in general, but this so acute phenomenon is not due to any "focused" effect by extraterrestrial gravity. Cyclone's mechanism is complex enough to explain this and other things. Hurricanes are very, very complex things.

[AlMayer1100]

@AmishRakeFight85 Not exactly so. Sun's gravitiy is also involved. Or do you assume that billions of tons of water are unaffected by suns gravity? Lol! High and low pressure areas are here because of gravity. So dont take it away too quick.

[firealarm211]

I have a joystick at my house that lets me control any hurricane that I want :D

Are you kidding me? This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard

[bobby3599]

@AmishRakeFight85 I think he means that the gravity is causing the change in the pressure...

[Starfflame22]

Fail

[xcellant]

Actualy hurricanes can be controled and directed

[buzter123]

I thought it was Bush's evil weather machine that he built to kill black people? ...man I was way off. :-I

[Tatarize]

BS. It can be affected but the added heat would more than overwhelm the effect.

[EternalEnigma314]

...the eye from the north west side. This caused the entire eye to wobble and move to the east. The readjustment of the path was the hurricane's returning to it's previous path after it was disrupted. In the last few pictures, notice how the eye wall because disrupted, that's the effect of the dry air. This event had NOTHING to do with the sun!