ATL: ALBERTO - Post-Tropical

[CrazyC83]

Is this system frontal or has it cut off?

[CrazyC83]

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/kilm/w ... ?play=true

Is that an EYE?

[RL3AO]

Looks like an ELF to me (eye-like feature for the newbies).

I'm sure crazy is joining in on that old running joke.

[RL3AO]

I'm sure the core is warming pretty quickly now. Now is the water warm enough to keep convection going?

[Aric Dunn]

I'm sure the core is warming pretty quickly now. Now is the water warm enough to keep convection going?

currently sitting on the 25 to 26 c line. little farther south its all 26 to 27 little sw hits near 28 in the gulf stream

[tolakram]

Live visible loop: http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ge ... umframes=5

[Aric Dunn]

I'm sure the core is warming pretty quickly now. Now is the water warm enough to keep convection going?

currently sitting on the 25 to 26 c line. little farther south its all 26 to 27 little sw hits near 28 in the gulf stream

[RL3AO]

Live visible loop: http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ge ... umframes=5

That E/ESE shear might be about to expose the center.

[Aric Dunn]

Live visible loop: http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ge ... umframes=5

That E/ESE shear might be about to expose the center.

pretty sure its dry air slot. shear seems to be all out of the SW

[northjaxpro]

Definitely the convection is getting tucked pretty good into the tight low level circulation. 93L is looking better and better by the hour. This entity looks rather impressive currently.

[RL3AO]

pretty sure its dry air slot. shear seems to be all out of the SW

Yeah. Didn't look at the sat long enough. Saw too much into those high clouds over NC racing west.

[CrazyC83]

This kinda resembles that derecho that formed in May 2009 in the mid-Mississippi Valley, although it is much weaker. It has that "hybrid" feel, doesn't look purely tropical and may even still have frontal characteristics.

[NDG]

Interesting how the ecmwf somewhat had the forecast right if this forming but then somewhat dropped it while it jumped to it developing underneath the ULL east of the mid atlantic. The last few runs if the gfs was initiated with the low pressure 100 miles further offshore.

[Dean4Storms]

I'm sort of at a loss with NHC over this.

[brunota2003]

No special PODs for Recon on this system, as of right now. Certainly interesting looking.

[RL3AO]

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[cycloneye]

I'm sort of at a loss with NHC over this.

What do you mean by that?

[cycloneye]

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[CrazyC83]

I'm sort of at a loss with NHC over this.

Frontal/baroclinic lows don't get classified by the NHC.

[brunota2003]

Looks to be drifting to the WSW at about 9 nautical miles per hour (roughly). Some of the storm tops on radar are up to 40,000 ft, per echo tops.

Also, the only frontal connections I can personally see is that it is in close proximity to the frontal surface low to it's NE, and is pulling clouds from it into the system.

Look frontal to you? Doesn't to me.