Tropical Storm Chris

[canes04]

He is organizing rather quickly this afternoon.
I think Chris will be a cane within 24hrs!

[NONAME]

what are they doing right now?

[Trugunzn]

Very nice blowup:

[TrekkerCC]

55KT AND 1007 MB!?! thats 65 mph!!

At flight-level. It's more like 40-45 kt(45-50 mph) at the surface.

Actually, the flight meteorologist on board is estimating from the sea state below that the surface winds are 55kts. Of course, this needs to be confirmed via the flight wind measurement taken by the hurricane hunters.

[SouthFloridawx]

He is organizing rather quickly this afternoon.
I think Chris will be a cane within 24hrs!

woah.... pull back the reigns .. lets hope not.

[LAwxrgal]

Also, with these latest pics being posted, is it my imagination or is this thing growing in size too?

[Canelaw99]

Yep....seems to be getting his act together this afternoon

[StormsAhead]

SXXX50 KNHC 011949
AF303 0103A CHRIS HDOB 19 KNHC
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[Toadstool]

He is organizing rather quickly this afternoon.
I think Chris will be a cane within 24hrs!

Yikes... yes he is looking that way!

[wxman22]

If Chris keeps up it may be a Hurricane by tommorow..... (Remember Alberto was barely a Tropical Storm and the next day it was allmost a Hurricane...)

[StormsAhead]

what are they doing right now?

They're moving south through the western quadrant and most likely getting ready to make a SW-NE pass.

[LAwxrgal]

Isn't this storm in like 30 knots of shear right now?

[Scorpion]

No, shear has decreased to around 10 kts.

[cajungal]

Well without having to go through all of the pages of posts on TS Chris is it still forecasted to die soon or will it pose a threat to FL or possibly enter the GOM?


Big Steve
Biloxi, MS
08/01/06

Yeah, I know how you feel. I usually don't have time to go through all the pages in the thread. My opinion, Chris is looking more and more impressive by the minute. He will be moving in an enviroment more favorable. Ridge will be building in strong. Question is will he go over Hispinola or just miss it? If he goes over Hispinola, the mountains will tear it apart. It looks like Chris has its sights on Bahamas and S Florida. GOM looks very likely at this time. So, the Gulf Coast will just have to pay close attention and be prepared just in case.

[stormie]

Which would be the worst quadrant of the storm to be on, NE or SW? In other words, if it passed a bit south of Tampa, would we be spared the worst of the storm or get the worst of it. You can hollar at me if it's too early to tell...and if so...sorry...just curious...

[Noah]

HMM.. So maybe west coast of florida should watch this coming the weekend?

[NONAME]

Lets hope he won't go over hispanolia because that is the most storm prone island in the carribean remeber what happen when Jeanne went through there she killed a lot of ppl and alpha last year killed a few as a weak ts. Jeanne also move slow if i can remember.

[wxman22]

I think this will be are first cane if it keeps up Chris is looking very intresting.

[Toadstool]

Which would be the worst quadrant of the storm to be on, NE or SW? In other words, if it passed a bit south of Tampa, would we be spared the worst of the storm or get the worst of it. You can hollar at me if it's too early to tell...and if so...sorry...just curious...

It looks well south of Tampa to me... I'm even hoping it stays well south of Miami!

[StormsAhead]

SXXX50 KNHC 011959
AF303 0103A CHRIS HDOB 20 KNHC
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1948 1742N 06209W 00300 0034 353 020 246 228 020 00345 0000000000
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