Tropical Depression GABRIELLE:Discussions and Images

[cycloneye]

Is now tropical at 5 PM.

[Brent]

Winds down to 40 and the new track has it missing the Outer Banks.

[chadtm80]

Should expect a track shift at 5pm.. Check image below (green dot is actual center)

[DESTRUCTION5]

Winds down to 40 and the new track has it missing the Outer Banks.

Ill take my fish with tartar sauce...

[hurricanedude]

by no means is it a fish....it grazes the obx dosent miss it

[KWT]

Is it just me or has the center jogged back WNW over the last 2hrs or so back towards the convection again, also shear easing off again a little it seems as the LLC is getting closer to the convection, with the convection building closer to the LLC.

[txwatcher91]

Is it just me or has the center jogged back WNW over the last 2hrs or so back towards the convection again, also shear easing off again a little it seems as the LLC is getting closer to the convection, with the convection building closer to the LLC.

I noticed earlier that the circulation was beginning to move NW instead of N, and that the convection had stopped moving while the circulation was getting closer to it.

[HURAKAN]

Latest:



The GS should cause the system to intensify a little more, but nothing significant will come out of Gabrielle. Sorry JB, your 970 mb storm didn't materialize!!!

[Thunder44]

Is it just me or has the center jogged back WNW over the last 2hrs or so back towards the convection again, also shear easing off again a little it seems as the LLC is getting closer to the convection, with the convection building closer to the LLC.

I noticed earlier that the circulation was beginning to move NW instead of N, and that the convection had stopped moving while the circulation was getting closer to it.

Yes, I think convection is getting closer to the center. Shear may be decreasing as the NHC mentioned earlier today.

[Thunder44]

Interesting comment from 5pm discussion on the "center" we've been tracking all day on visible:

The exposed circulation center is easy to find...but the smaller
swirl that appears to be the center on satellite imagery seems to
have rotated about a larger mean center during the day. The motion
of the mean center is northwestward and slower than before...or
roughly 320/7.

[seahawkjd]

So where is the actual center as oposed to the one we've been following all day? lol

[Tom8]

predicted shift of the trajectory is already happenning now but it is dificult to beliwe that shif of the trajectory will be this much big .
This mean this storm may will enter ashore .

maybe some separation will be posible then to .

[cpdaman]

well let's see what happens over next couple hours , going over gulf stream and bending back NW (with LLC racing to get under convection/not their yet)

maybe gabby has another surprise yet

[wxman57]

Latest:

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/images/tropical/279.JPG

The GS should cause the system to intensify a little more, but nothing significant will come out of Gabrielle. Sorry JB, your 970 mb storm didn't materialize!!!

Notice the second LLC about 60 miles south of the main center?

[OuterBanker]

Odd, beautiful outside. Sunny and hardly a cloud in the sky (although wind has been increasing all day). Thought they would cancel at 5 but they didn't. Gabby does look a bit more symmetrical lately. Will be doing rain dance tonight

[Tom8]

yes it is not other posibility now but look only what will happens in the next couple of hours .

[Ptarmigan]

Meanwhile, here in Houston, I'd like to just see ONE SINGLE DAY without pouring rain. 15" over the last 2 weeks is a bit much. It's pouring now. My moss is growing moss on it.

Tell me about it! We had lots of rain lately in Houston. The rain can go to Alabama. They can take all of it with them.

[Tom8]

interesting view

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat ... op-12.html

[seahawkjd]

Meanwhile, here in Houston, I'd like to just see ONE SINGLE DAY without pouring rain. 15" over the last 2 weeks is a bit much. It's pouring now. My moss is growing moss on it.

Tell me about it! We had lots of rain lately in Houston. The rain can go to Alabama. They can take all of it with them.

I have a solution. Find a way to get Jim Cantore to swap jobs with you for a couple of days and them come out to the Carolinas. Nothing will get within 200 miles of Houston and we'll get a deluge here, everybody wins!!

[jaxfladude]

Tropical Storm GABRIELLE may not look like much, but at least she has more heart than the UM Wolverines football team so far this season......

Now back all seriousness , let us all hope Gabby at worst just grazes the Outer Banks later this weekend but still gives some rain to those in the outer banks.....