and those patterns allow us to efficiently fly through a storm’s various quadrants,” Nick Underwood, NOAA Hurricane Hunter, said. “This data helps with predicting a storm’s intensity ...

Hurricane forecasters define quadrants of the storm with respect to the direction the hurricane is moving. If the storm is moving west, the front, right quadrant would be northwest of the eye.

The storm’s right, front quadrant is relative to the motion of the storm. If the storm is moving north, the “dirty side” ...

Hurricane Dorian wasn’t the only vortex that ... especially in the right-front quadrant of the system. The tornadoes tend to be short-lived and can come with little, if any, warning.

So, what exactly is the “dirty side” of a hurricane? It is considered to be the right side, or the upper-right quadrant in the direction the storm is traveling, the Miami Herald reported.

This quadrant delivers the most significant impact ... You definitely do not want to be stuck in this region of a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane making landfall. This area of a tropical cyclone ...

A few other key takeaways include, the tornado threat that exists with every landfalling tropical storm or hurricane. The “dirty side” of the storm, the right front quadrant in relation to the ...

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