BlowHard wrote:I am definitely not a professional meteorologist, nor do I pretend to be. I live in PR and do a little FB page of the local weather because I find tracking the hurricanes to be fascinating and also think there is a largely local twist that goes into that we cannot find elsewhere. So for two years, I've watched wind shear and sahara dust blow apart storms that were given high success rates to become tropical cyclones, as predicted by the NHC. Now I am looking at this one (which I do NOT want to develop, believe me) and I just don't see what other people are talking about in regards to SAL and shear. The shear is about as low as I've ever seen it and the SAL is light by local standards. (I could show you some pics that are basically all red, all over)....So I don't see the two things I usually look at first to determine if a storm will likely develop. Clearly, I am missing something. I know what part of that is, and I am wondering if someone can give me an explanation that will help me. I see people talking about ridges moving off the rockies, etc but I don't know what that results in or how it impacts the development of these storms. Is it that the ridge moves down and creates a high pressure area that alters the path of the storm? Can someone enlighten this rank amateur?
I am bumping this because I am still hopeful someone wants to give me an explanation...y aknow, instead of arguing over models. Anyone? Bueller?