There is also a possibility that if both storms strengthen, a semi-rare process called the Fujiwhara effect may occur, which could cause one storm to spin toward the East Coast.
The Fujiwhara effect happens when two storms orbit around a shared center point. It was named for a Japanese meteorologist, Sakuhei Fujiwhara, who first described the interaction between whirling masses of fluid or air in 1921.
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