MADISON, Wis. - A weather phenomenon that was first described by Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara when two cyclones orbit around each other. This phenomenon may occur along the east coast as two cyclones are forecast to be close to each other.

Born in Suwa, Sakuhei Fujiwhara joined the Central Meteorological Observatory, which is now the Japanese Meteorological Agency, in 1909. Fujiwhara would travel to Norway to study meteorology and return to Japan in 1922 as the general director of the Central Institute for the Training of Meteorologists. The institute is currently named Meteorological College of Japan.

In a paper written in 1921, Fujiwhara first mentioned the phenomenon which would later be called the Fujiwhara Effect while watching vortices moving in water (meteorologists tr

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