Lucifer was bored that morning. He rubbed his chin as he thought. “Speaking of which, this is quite miraculous. Where did my curse about the storm go to? There is completely no news about it at all… No, a search among all the people against Hong Dali found no one being hit by a storm. Did my curse not work? Or has it lost its effect? It didn’t seem like it… Did something happen on Hong Dali’s side? Hmm, that’s possible. This Hong Dali is really quite amazing…”
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“Ah-choo,” Hong Dali sneezed on the deck of Big Fish. He rubbed his nose. “Who’s talking about me?” He sneezed again as he spoke. “Ah-choo. Oh god. Damn it. The weather is quite warm, why do I keep sneezing…”
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The butterfly effect, also known as the topological chain reaction, referred to the long-term huge chain reaction where tiny motions in the atmosphere scaled up to affect larger systems. This was a chaotic phenomenon. In the development of something, it could be fixed or variable. The development process of things had regular rules and unmeasurable “variables”. A small change could affect the development of things, indicating the complexity of the development of things.
This was why nature was so amazing…
After Hong Dali sneezed twice, he went to look for Li Nianwei nonchalantly to take a nap.
Those were not ordinary sneezes.
At that moment, Big Fish was en-route to the Bermuda Triangle. It was already in the middle of the tropical ocean. On the sea, there were often many weak tropical cyclones. In professional terms, this was the typhoon’s “embryo”. Typhoons were often made up of such weak tropical cyclones.
It was nothing at first. The problem was, Hong Dali sneezed twice…
On the sea surface around Big Fish, it was wide and was part of tropical waters. The temperature of the surface of the sea was higher than 26.5 degrees celsius, and in this layer of water 60 meters deep, the water temperature far exceeded this. The vast ocean surface was the necessary natural environment for the formation of typhoons. Because of the friction between the air molecules inside the typhoon, the average energy consumption was 3100-4000 cal/cm**2 per day. This energy could only be released from the vast tropical ocean. In addition, the strong wind rotating around the tropical cyclone would cause the seawater near the center to tumble. In the center of the typhoon where the air pressure dropped very low, the ocean surface could rise upwards and spread around. Hence, the seawater from the typhoon center begun to tumble to the surrounding area.
Originally, such an environment was only likely to form a typhoon. It was not certain that a typhoon would be formed.
Before the typhoon was formed, an initial disturbance was required, just like a spring oscillator. It did not vibrate without any disturbance.
Hong Dali’s two sneezes, were the initial disturbance!
The sea surrounding Big Fish first formed a weak tropical cyclone.
Any operation of a machine consumed energy, which required a source of energy. The typhoon was also a “heat engine”. It rotated with a big scale of speed and required a large consumption of energy. Therefore, it had to have an energy source.
The breath from Hong Dali’s sneezes, combined with the weak tropical cyclones, strengthened the weak tropical cyclones by just a teeny weeny bit, and they moved very very slowly.
Within this tropical cyclone, the air pressure itself was lower than the surrounding area. After the breath from Hong Dali’s two sneezes merged, the cyclone moved, causing the air pressure to gradually become lower. The surrounding air swelled with a large amount of water vapor flowing toward the center of the cyclone. An upward movement occurred in the cyclone zone; the humid air rose and the water vapor condensed, releasing a huge latent heat of condensation, which began to cause the typhoon to operate.
When Big Fish advanced more than ten nautical miles, the tropical cyclone affected by the two sneezes of Hong Dali had already formed a certain scale—a diameter of about twenty centimeters.
A diameter of twenty centimeters, in the vast sea, was actually smaller than the hair on one’s head. But this was ongoing—it was the tropical sea. The water temperature was very suitable. The high temperature and high humidity tropical ocean supplied water vapor, and the air rose strongly, causing condensation to release latent heat. The typhoon had taken its initial shape.
If it were just a small cyclone, it was not harmful. At most, it would cause a little inconvenience before disappearing into the vast sea forever.
But the problem was, at that moment, coincidentally or not, a sea breeze caused an even stronger reaction—the lower temperature brought by sea breeze increased the difference in temperature between the cyclones. Hence, this small cyclone increased greatly in size—from a diameter of about twenty centimeters to about one meter.
At that moment, this little tropical cyclone was moving faster and faster. About an hour later, it just happened to be so unfortunate, moved to a latitude that was very suitable for typhoons—the formation of a typhoon must consist of sufficient rotation force from Earth. This was because the eccentricity of the equator was zero and gradually increased toward both poles. The typhoon occurred about five latitudes away from the equator, and this cyclone was just above this latitude.
Due to the rotation of the Earth, a force that changed the flow of the air was produced, called the “Earth Rotation Coriolis Force”. When the tropical cyclone moved here, the effect of the earth’s rotation made it difficult for the surrounding air to flow directly into the low pressure but rotated counterclockwise along the center of the low pressure.
At that moment in time, this small tropical cyclone got a little bigger. It had reached a diameter of more than two meters.
It still looked rather small, like small seeds growing and budding.
In this small tropical cyclone, just above the weak low pressure, the difference in wind speed between the high and low air gradually decreased, and soon the upper and lower air columns acted in unison, and the heat in the upper air rapidly accumulated, thereby warming up.
With the flow of the ambient air above the friction layer along the isobaric line, the warming effect of the high-rise was further completed. This small tropical cyclone grew rapidly and became larger. Soon the diameter rose to three meters, four meters, five meters…
If it were of such a scale, it was insufficient.
The problem was that the sea surface here was illuminated by a day, forming a strong cumulonimbus cloud.
The small tropical cyclone passed, and because of the wind speed, it brought a lot of cold air. At this time, the hot air in the cumulonimbus rising on the sea surface, with the cold air around the source constantly added, the heat rose again. This cycle quickly made the air above hot and the air below cold. The hot air above evaporated and expanded the range of the clouds.
This small tropical cyclone already had a diameter of nearly 15 meters. The expansion of the cloud increased the hot and cold movement. The expanded cloud was affected by the Coriolis force and began to rotate quickly.
The centrifugal force generated by the rotating air cast the air out. The air in the center was getting thinner and thinner, and the air pressure was getting smaller. Finally, this small tropical cyclone had completely sprouted, grew up, became maturer, and finally reached a diameter of nearly 30 meters. It had entered the initial stage of the typhoon.
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Merika Weather Bureau.
The workers yawned out of boredom as they discussed about the things that happened in the recent two days.
“Hey, worker. Have you seen the news lately? Our country’s three carrier strike groups have been sent out to sea for a military exercise. This is on a rarely seen large scale.” A worker in the weather bureau looked at the computer screen as he said to his colleague.
“Of course, how could I be unaware of such big news.” His colleague laughed and said, “As a prodigal, he was able to command such a large military movement. It’s really a miracle. To be honest, I think they’re making a mountain out of a molehill.”
“It was indeed too much to do this just because of a prodigal.” The earlier man shook his head. “These people have nothing better to do. Playing with military funds. They have nowhere better to spend the money. Tens of millions US dollars are lost once an aircraft carrier leaves for the sea.”
“Let’s not worry about the high-level things.” The colleague sat down on the sofa as he looked at the satellite image. He suddenly exclaimed, “Quick, look. What is this?”
“Eh? What is it?” The earlier man quickly stood up before smiling. “It’s just a small typhoon. See how anxious you are.”
“Hehe, I must be too sensitive.” On the satellite cloud map, a typhoon with a diameter of 30 meters was moving towards Merika. However, for the people of the Meteorological Bureau, a typhoon of such size usually did not require them to worry about it. Under normal circumstances, such a small typhoon would usually disappear before it approached land.
“Okay, okay. Don’t do useless things.” The Merika Weather Bureau’s Bureau Chief walked in then. “Go work!”
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Merika Weather Bureau didn’t pay too much attention to a small tropical cyclone. It was too small after all, it wasn’t worth mentioning.
This small tropical cyclone was trying it’s best to move, to grow…
Because the air pressure in the tropical low-pressure center was lower than outside, the surrounding air surged into the tropical lower pressure. When the heat rose, it supplied more energy to the tropical low pressure, exceeding its output energy. At this time, the air in the tropical low-pressure rotated more vigorously, and the wind in the center rose. The center air pressure fell further.
Finally, the wind force near the center reached about 60 kilometers per hour. At this time, this small tropical cyclone finally succeeded in leveling up. From the initial tropical low pressure like a seed to a tropical cyclone—the weakest level of small typhoon.
