• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Hurricane Vs. Weather Boundary

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I was curious as to what happens when a cold front meets a weather depression like a hurricane.

Ike should break apart after making landfall and it's remnants stretch out over my area.

But my main question is which dictates the motion of the other? Does the pressure of the depression need to be of certain strength to stall the cold front or will the low just ride along the cold front?
 
It's not really the front or hurricane dictating the motion of each. Hurricanes are steered by the upper-level flow. NHC has mentioned several times about how Ike will turn north and northeast on the west side of a ridge. Usually the remnant low of a tropical system will get "picked up" by a nearby trough that's moving through the area. Otherwise, it will continue to be guided by the upper-level flow (generally a ridge that the tropical system is moving around)

In this case, the remnants of Ike are expected to get absorbed by a front. It's similar to how a surface low might form and then propagate northeast along the frontal boundary.
 
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