wxman57 wrote:Let me check to see the 00Z EC. It shows a trof axis extending down to 91L beginning Wednesday. Ridge way to the northwest. Certainly not the same setup as with Felix or Dean. Trof to the north, not a ridge. By Friday, EC has the ridge building back to the south and east over 91L a little bit, but not a strong ridge. It would only take a movement toward 288 degrees from the current location to track north of the Caribbean. That may not be too difficult with a trof to the north if the EC is right.
Yeah I believe the other models show the same thing and thats the reason why the GFS keeps the system on a pretty much due west movement till 24-30hrs time. As you say the Atlantic set-up is different right now and there are more weaknesses in the high, right now two main ones appear to me, one around 45-50W and another between 70-80W, thesre two locations will be where 91L will take a more WNW/NW type direction.
I shoud note tohugh I'm not talking about a GFDL track, but maybe just enough to skirt the northern Leeward Islands and by that time I think we'll be looking at a strong tropical storm, maybe a minimal hurricane IF it forms.
At least this system has an active ITCZ to work with as well, plenty of instablity is present in that location, at least compared to what we saw when Felix came across.