quietstorm wrote:About the likelihood of the HWRF model, has it happened before that the NHC has moved the cone one way and then moved it back in the other direction again? I can't recall ever seeing that happen before. Super nervous about that model's solution but telling myself that the fact that NHC keeps shifting the cone westward means HWRF outcome must be way wrong...
It has. No super common For them To have windshield wiper swings in these modern days of hurricane modeling. But can happen in the 4-5 time periods. Usually they adjust track so subtly you wouldn’t notice even if they are a little back and forth because they hug the consensus so much. If a significant model or 2 comes back east toward HWrF for instance, could see them shift back toward NOLA. This is a highly complex situation with Marco on the seen. More so than your normal storm approaching the gulf through the G Antilles. The question is usually just timing the strength and position of troughs and highs. But whatever Marco does could have an effect on ridge position. And currently models stretch from Brownsville to nola for him...so it’s going to be a tough one .
In the good old days, I will never forget the windshield wipering, (Katrina and Ivan to name 2) Sitting on the northern gulf coast it was not uncommon for them swing back and forth across the coast in the long range.