Future Forecast [primarily for myself, deviathan and perhaps <u

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"Kayla, what do you know about the storm with two eyes?"
"Tornadoes are often reported on the fringes of hurricanes, and on rare occasions, one forms in or near the eyewall, and might exist within the eye."
"No, not those."  Rick pulled out a a copy of an old painting, resembling a stylized yin-yang, and handed it to her.  "This."
"I didn't think anyone had ever seen one of these."  Her voice was soft; words for a confessional, or a lover.
"I guess they have.  What I'm wondering is, can we make one?"

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[helcat.livejournal.com]

Her jaw dropped open; with a start she snapped it shut. "Do we really want to do that?"

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling she'd say something like that. ;-)

[This is the sort of thing that floats up unbidden very often for me, so now I need to figure out how to anchor it to something bigger and more coherent; I just really liked the idea and didn't want to lose it.]

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

you'll need a plausible reason for the physics... You can do funky things with orbits like have two stars that orbit each other and steal each other's planets periodically, but storms are spun by Coriolis around a vaccuum. The winds at the closest edges blow into each other head on.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Aye. This is the sort of thing that tends to cause a drift of half-formed story ideas to accumulate in my head, if not my hard drive or slush pile, because I end up doing lots of heavy lifting in order for the reader to suspend their disbelief with a minimum of effort. Too much bad SF in my diet has made me both very dilligent and overly-cautious.

I'm thinking a shared outer wall of circulation, with mutually-orbiting eyes, and something that involves [handwave[1]] at the rubbing point, given the non-trivial dose of psychospiritual influence that underlies the meteorology of the story's universe.

[1] - [Insert Portentious/Important Phenomena/Plot Device/Deux Ex Machina Here]