Strong looking wave in SE Africa

[Evil Jeremy]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html

nice looking wave inside Africa! should exit off of Africa's coast soon!

[cycloneye]

That Water Vapor loop shows the hostil conditions that are present in the Eastern Atlantic with that huge upper trough.And that system will hit the wall as soon it hits the water.

[Sanibel]

As Cycloneye noted, it is about to hit that ULL buzzsaw near the Azores.

That's it for Cape Verde 2006. Bust year for the predictors.

[wxman57]

Yeah, there's a RIPPING westerly shear all the way from the eastern Caribbean to Africa now. No more development in the Tropical Atlantic, most likely.

[Frank2]

I agree - the widespread cirrus streaks in today's IR photo look like something from January...

Frank

P.S. After the scare from TS Chris, some of us here were held in doubt because we felt the season would not turn out as predicted by many, but, apparently our feelings were correct. While some of us (myself included) incorrectly said the same in '04 and '05, after Wilma, it did appear that things were changing (perhaps El Nino was already emerging at that time), with increasing shear across the Gulf last October, and, it only increased as the winter months passed into Spring and Summer - by past experience, it does seem that El Nino conditions sometimes do take 2 or more years to run their course - this would verify that perhaps a change was already in progress late last Fall.