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#1 Postby Stormsfury » Sat Jul 12, 2003 4:33 pm

Claudette looks subtropical ... the ULL low (and now with the anticyclone to the east) which has plagued Claudette from becoming a healthier storm now appears to be enhancing convection with diffluent flow over the system ...

Claudette now has a similar appearance Bill once did, and actually had to put eyedrops in to make sure I wasn't seeing an exact carbon copy of Bill ...

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#2 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Jul 12, 2003 4:39 pm

Stormsfury, I believe you were one that said that a tropical system this long in tropics from the Caribbean into the Gulf of Mexico cannot become subtropical after being tropical?
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#3 Postby Stormsfury » Sat Jul 12, 2003 4:45 pm

ColdFront77 wrote:Stormsfury, I believe you were one that said that a tropical system this long in tropics from the Caribbean into the Gulf of Mexico cannot become subtropical after being tropical?


Nope, that wasn't me ... even though, Claudette has purely originated in the tropics, the appearance and environmental influences which continue to plague Claudette have made Claudette, at best, a hybrid storm ...
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#4 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Jul 12, 2003 4:45 pm

Sorry about that, I knew there were a few that said so.
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#5 Postby Stormsfury » Sat Jul 12, 2003 4:48 pm

ColdFront77 wrote:Sorry about that, I knew there were a few that said so.


No problem, Tom ...
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