Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa (INVEST 99L is up)
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
That would be the first major hurricane strike on Georgia since 1898, not surprisingly, a similar track. Doubt that will happen but it highlights how dangerous the steering pattern is this year.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
It's funny that Steve and I and a couple of others were talking about this setup yesterday.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Ominous run, but if a major hurricane hit the US East Coast every time the GFS forecast one to do so 13 days out, me and everybody else along the shoreline would be dead so not a good track record.
Bottom line is that conditions appear conducive for development and intensification of a tropical cyclone in the MDR over the next few days.
Bottom line is that conditions appear conducive for development and intensification of a tropical cyclone in the MDR over the next few days.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
I'm very curious to see what the ECMWF 00z run will show at 240 hours, both upper level pattern and storm strength. The 00z GFS and CMC have a formidable system at 240 hours.
00z GFS at 240 hours:
00z CMC at 240 hours:
00z GFS at 240 hours:
00z CMC at 240 hours:
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Up to 20/50
A large area of showers and thunderstorms near the west coast of
Africa is associated with a tropical wave. Environmental conditions
are forecast to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical
depression could form by early next week over the tropical Atlantic
Ocean. This system is forecast to move toward the west or west-
northwest at 10 to 15 mph for the next several days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 percent.
A large area of showers and thunderstorms near the west coast of
Africa is associated with a tropical wave. Environmental conditions
are forecast to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical
depression could form by early next week over the tropical Atlantic
Ocean. This system is forecast to move toward the west or west-
northwest at 10 to 15 mph for the next several days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 percent.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Would expect this to be designated an invest sometime tomorrow once it's actually completely over water.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
A much stronger signal from the 00z GFS ensembles:
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Kind of ironic to think just two days ago we were all talking about going the first 2-3 weeks of August with no storms and now the models are trending towards potential hurricane in the first third of the month.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
If I had to guess I'd say that the cmc, Ukmet and ecmwf's southern position is more likely the right one considering the building high to the north. we will see of course, but this season has favored a "solid" azores/bermuda high and if this continues then this season should be something different from the past 4-5 seasons...wait and see I guess.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
It's very far out but that steering pattern looks very ominous for anyone from SE FL to the OBX...
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
USTropics wrote:A much stronger signal from the 00z GFS ensembles:
They favor a much more southerly position(3-6 degrees) compared to the Op.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
My two cents: per the TWO's cone, looks like the NHC goes with the UKMET/ECMWF in terms of trajectory, and with the GFS in terms of time line for development.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Sciencerocks wrote:USTropics wrote:A much stronger signal from the 00z GFS ensembles:
They favor a much more southerly position(3-6 degrees) compared to the Op.
Essentially the GFS ensembles show a wide range of solutions, including recurving, Carolina/Florida/Georgia landfall, and even a GOM cruiser. To be expected though this far out with such a progressive pattern.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
00z Euro coming in weaker. As expected, the models initially back off in intensity as soon as the wave touches the ocean.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Kingarabian wrote:00z Euro coming in weaker. As expected, the models initially back off in intensity as soon as the wave touches the ocean.
There does appear to be some dry air on the western periphery of the AEW in both the GFS and ECMWF 00z runs. I imagine quite a bit of energy will be needed to just keep building convection on the western side as it erodes, debilitating development initially.
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Don't foresee much the rest of the run; choking on dry air.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Through 120 hours, the ECMWF is quite a bit faster then the GFS and CMC:
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
Significantly weaker and further south, 00z ECMWF essentially has an open wave in 6 days crossing the Leewards.
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Re: Strong Tropical Wave Emerging off Africa
USTropics wrote:Kingarabian wrote:00z Euro coming in weaker. As expected, the models initially back off in intensity as soon as the wave touches the ocean.
There does appear to be some dry air on the western periphery of the AEW in both the GFS and ECMWF 00z runs. I imagine quite a bit of energy will be needed to just keep building convection on the western side as it erodes, debilitating development initially.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3pMajOp.gif[/ig]
Yep NASA showed moderate dry air levels. We touched up on it in the first couple of pages.
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