It's the most ship and dshp haved been so far with this system in intensity 92kts.
Good Grief!!! While I do hope for a cane to form, I hope that no land masses have to deal with it.
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Hyperstorm wrote:Haven't really checked much into this system quite yet, but you can see that there is NO closed circulation at all. Yes, it has a broad circulation, but not a closed center, which you can tell by the absence of any north winds on the front side of it. This is based on an early morning Quikscat.
The system has not become any better organized during the day today, even though it has an upper-level anticyclone that was well forecasted by the models a few days ago. This is responsible for the lack of strong shearing winds at this time.
Despite the above mentioned factor and very warm SSTs, there really isn't much organization with this system. Convection has developed and deepened this evening over the main feature, but the energy is mostly confined to the NE of it. This doesn't make it too favorable for significant development in the near term.
Regardless of its strength, the system is likely to gradually begin a WNW trajectory as it nears the islands. This is ALL due to an area of troughiness that extends from just north of Puerto Rico eastward for several hundred miles. It really is not a point of it (95L) being in a southern latitude because what is supposed to steer it is far enough south to pull it gradually.
Just be sure that until/IF it develops a well-defined closed low pressure center, the system will not be classified. Right now it doesn't meet that criteria.
Behind 95L, a distinct disturbance near 8N 38W is gaining some momentum. It is currently under some moderate northerly wind flow associated with the large anticyclone over and just NE of 95L. If it persists for the next 24 hours, it will be yet another feature to watch as it positions itself under a slightly more favorable easterly flow...
can I see your crystal ball?? I see no consensus.BensonTCwatcher wrote:Hyperstorm wrote:Haven't really checked much into this system quite yet, but you can see that there is NO closed circulation at all. Yes, it has a broad circulation, but not a closed center, which you can tell by the absence of any north winds on the front side of it. This is based on an early morning Quikscat.
The system has not become any better organized during the day today, even though it has an upper-level anticyclone that was well forecasted by the models a few days ago. This is responsible for the lack of strong shearing winds at this time.
Despite the above mentioned factor and very warm SSTs, there really isn't much organization with this system. Convection has developed and deepened this evening over the main feature, but the energy is mostly confined to the NE of it. This doesn't make it too favorable for significant development in the near term.
Regardless of its strength, the system is likely to gradually begin a WNW trajectory as it nears the islands. This is ALL due to an area of troughiness that extends from just north of Puerto Rico eastward for several hundred miles. It really is not a point of it (95L) being in a southern latitude because what is supposed to steer it is far enough south to pull it gradually.
Just be sure that until/IF it develops a well-defined closed low pressure center, the system will not be classified. Right now it doesn't meet that criteria.
Behind 95L, a distinct disturbance near 8N 38W is gaining some momentum. It is currently under some moderate northerly wind flow associated with the large anticyclone over and just NE of 95L. If it persists for the next 24 hours, it will be yet another feature to watch as it positions itself under a slightly more favorable easterly flow...
I think that is pretty much a good analysis of the system at this point. It has not yet pulled out of the ITCZ. The prevailing flow is NW at that lattitude and the Southerly flow can not fully "wrap" until it pulls bit more north. The trough will probably do that IMHO based on the model consensus. The feature behind 95L has been on the GFS and UKMET and a liitle bit on the NOGAPS for today's earlier run.


Rainband wrote:can I see your crystal ball?? I see no consensus.BensonTCwatcher wrote:Hyperstorm wrote:Haven't really checked much into this system quite yet, but you can see that there is NO closed circulation at all. Yes, it has a broad circulation, but not a closed center, which you can tell by the absence of any north winds on the front side of it. This is based on an early morning Quikscat.
The system has not become any better organized during the day today, even though it has an upper-level anticyclone that was well forecasted by the models a few days ago. This is responsible for the lack of strong shearing winds at this time.
Despite the above mentioned factor and very warm SSTs, there really isn't much organization with this system. Convection has developed and deepened this evening over the main feature, but the energy is mostly confined to the NE of it. This doesn't make it too favorable for significant development in the near term.
Regardless of its strength, the system is likely to gradually begin a WNW trajectory as it nears the islands. This is ALL due to an area of troughiness that extends from just north of Puerto Rico eastward for several hundred miles. It really is not a point of it (95L) being in a southern latitude because what is supposed to steer it is far enough south to pull it gradually.
Just be sure that until/IF it develops a well-defined closed low pressure center, the system will not be classified. Right now it doesn't meet that criteria.
Behind 95L, a distinct disturbance near 8N 38W is gaining some momentum. It is currently under some moderate northerly wind flow associated with the large anticyclone over and just NE of 95L. If it persists for the next 24 hours, it will be yet another feature to watch as it positions itself under a slightly more favorable easterly flow...
I think that is pretty much a good analysis of the system at this point. It has not yet pulled out of the ITCZ. The prevailing flow is NW at that lattitude and the Southerly flow can not fully "wrap" until it pulls bit more north. The trough will probably do that IMHO based on the model consensus. The feature behind 95L has been on the GFS and UKMET and a liitle bit on the NOGAPS for today's earlier run.




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