Long loop of interesting feature in east Atlantic

[hurricanetrack]

For those you who wish to appease your appetite for any kind of action at all, check out the long loop at my site:

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/animation ... ir/ir.html

It is cool to see how the convection really fires up at the end there and more moisture gets drawn in. Hey- why not get this thing to go sub-tropical at least. That would be something. a named sub-tropical storm in MARCH.

Anyone?

[Rainband]

That almost looks like a STS to my amateur eyes

[hurricanetrack]

Well- if it hangs around long enough and develops enough persistent convection, and all the other stuff....then who knows? Perhaps the Atlantic is in a state where it HAS to pop off storms in order to keep the global heat balance in check. It's been quite active since 1995 as we all know.

Let's watch this feature over the coming days to see what happens to it.

[ColdFront77]

The water temperatures in this are are in the middle 70's, sounds a bit above average for mid to late March (to me).

[hurricanetrack]

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/animation ... fs500.html

This is the GFS animation out to 180 hours. Watch how it send the 500MB feature into Africa.

Can't wait to see this work on a hurricane out there in a few months.

[Rainband]

Me either

[hurricanetrack]

I would take temps in the 70s right now. Water off of Cape Fear area is still way too cold for me.

That is changing on a daily basis though. Yaay.

[Typhoon_Willie]

Same thing here. Just curious though can you do the same for lets say the South Pacific, Western Pacific or South Indian ocean? That way me may not have to wait that long for a beautiful system to come along!

[george_r_1961]

Well to my "amatuer eyes" this system appears to be acquiring subtropical characteristics. Convection to starting to wrap around the center and appears to be increasing.