The next one to exit Africa, looks impressive

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The next one to exit Africa, looks impressive

#1 Postby Weathermaster » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:39 am

The next tropical wave to exit Africa tomorrow looks BIG.

Do you think it has possibilities to develop behind that big cloud of saharan dust?


http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/disp ... C_SCALE=15
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#2 Postby AussieMark » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:31 pm

Do you think it is one massive wave or 2 large waves.
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#3 Postby abajan » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:53 pm

CV season is pretty much over but there's always an outside chance I guess.
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#4 Postby BEER980 » Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:22 pm

No SAL below 15N in the area. It looks more like a V shaped wave to me.
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Anythings possible weathermaster...

#5 Postby Guest » Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:02 pm

The season is far from over IMO. I'm going to keep monitoring the tropics. I'm going to check out the tropical atlantic now to see what everyone else is seeing out there.... :lol:
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#6 Postby shaner » Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:21 am

I'm sorry for sounding noobish here, but I thought weather travelled west to east. Why do these systems travel east to west? Trade winds?
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#7 Postby BEER980 » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:03 am

shaner In the tropics near the equator but north of it the winds flow in a west direction. In your area the flow is to the east.
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#8 Postby shaner » Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:35 am

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks. :D
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#9 Postby WeatherEmperor » Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:42 am

I believe that the Cape Verde season will end any day now. It is way too late to be impacted by Cape Verde storm anymore. Now they can still develop but they will just end up being a fish. Now if these waves from Africa hold on long enough to make it all the way into the Carib' then we have something to look out for...
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#10 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:07 pm

Yes indeed, that's true... weather systems move west to east over the northern latitudes and generally east to west in the tropics.

They move east to west and west to east, basically between 25ºN and 30ºN.

Hurricane Lenny in 1999 (which has been mentioned in some threads) moved eastward in the Caribbean Sea, which was very rare.
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