Looking at the latest IR2 images from the Bahamas...it looks to me that there is a sheared TC...or at least a sheared sub-TC...in existance:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html
Haven't seen a QScat...but SOMETHING has to be doing all of that forcing at the surface.
MW
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Mike you could be right, but it is really hard to tell. I thought it looked better earlier today, but to me it appears that nothing has reached the surface yet or if it did it appears to have disappated. Obviously I could be wrong. I must say it has been trying hard, but I'm just not convinced yet. It is so hard to tell without a true visible available too.
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FWBHurricane wrote:Wow...that map places the storm over southern florida then pulling and Andrew, going up towards New Orleans. Looks very farfetched to me.
couple of things:
1. This was a test system initialized with the same coordinates they always use under an AL80 header. The easy way to go with this stuff is anything AL8* is a test system. Anything AL90-99 are the ranges designated for true invests.
2. The line you see making a B-line for Miami is the extraploated (XTRP) motion of the storm, using the initial course and speed of the system and projecting an extraoplated path over 120 hours. It should be used only as a reference point...but isn't expected to be realistic.
My guess is that they actually did initialize the models on this system (hence 91L) but are having transmission problems with the model product.
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