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#121 Postby cycloneye » Wed May 09, 2007 2:53 pm

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The Heat Content in the Caribbean is very high.Something may form in that area in the next few weeks as GFS in the long range has hinted.
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#122 Postby AnnularCane » Wed May 09, 2007 3:01 pm

Could Andrea have been the storm the GFS was hinting at? I don't know many of the details about that.
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#123 Postby cycloneye » Wed May 09, 2007 3:18 pm

AnnularCane wrote:Could Andrea have been the storm the GFS was hinting at? I don't know many of the details about that.


GFS was showing the low pressure in the Western Atlantic for many days,but I am referring in the Caribbean Sea.
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#124 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Wed May 09, 2007 3:19 pm

cycloneye do you think the large area of convection in the central Caribbean may develop
over the next 5-7 days if it disattaches from the main trough producing it?

GFS shows lessening shear and hints at a low there.
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#125 Postby cycloneye » Wed May 09, 2007 3:21 pm

Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:cycloneye do you think the large area of convection in the central Caribbean may develop
over the next 5-7 days if it disattaches from the main trough producing it?

GFS shows lessening shear and hints at a low there.


No,there is a big upper trough dominating in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean.All of that troughnness has to be gone before anything can start to organize into a tropical system down there.
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#126 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Wed May 09, 2007 3:23 pm

thanks cycloneye!
Too much troughing for now but perhaps
by early June I'm guessing we see something
like what TS Alberto was last year
a weak system in the NW caribbean
and during the same time frame
of early june.
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#127 Postby HurricaneHunter914 » Thu May 10, 2007 3:39 pm

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/SST/ATL/20.jpg

The GOM is really heating up with upper 70s over half of the area.
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#128 Postby Praxus » Thu May 10, 2007 4:49 pm

drezee wrote:SST in the florida keys hitting 30C over past 3 days...

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=SMKF1



Water temp at the bouy for the same day / time:

2005 25.5
2006 27.7
NOW 29.5

Definitely warming up quick it seems...at least in that area.
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#129 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Thu May 10, 2007 6:12 pm

For the Gulf of Mexico SST measurement,
the rise of SSTs is certainly notable.
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#130 Postby skysummit » Thu May 10, 2007 10:04 pm

Here's an SST comparison of May 9, 2007 and May 9, 2006. According to this, last year at this time the Gulf was much warmer over a larger area. This year, the Carribean looks to be warmer.

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#131 Postby cycloneye » Thu May 10, 2007 10:09 pm

:uarrow: What skysummit posted about the Caribbean being more warmer than the GOM is confirmed by the Heat Content data where the Caribbean is in a high Heat Content.


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#132 Postby Grease Monkey » Fri May 11, 2007 12:42 am

I don't think it means much that in 2006 it was warmer around this time in the gulf because the temperatures eventually normalized as the season went on. I think it only matters what the temps end up being in prime time, so it just shows how quickly the tables can turn.
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#133 Postby drezee » Sun May 13, 2007 7:34 pm

THE TCHP or Heat content for the Caribbean has to be historic, even though records don't date back that far.

Please compare the previous two warmest North Atl years 05 and 06 vs this year (same date):

2007
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Also compare earliest dates of similar TCHP in both years to with now (subjective):

2006:
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2005:

Hard sale...E Caribbean was so far ahead of schedule to find one comparable.
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#134 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Sun May 13, 2007 8:41 pm

Interesting comparisons...will be waiting and seeing as
to what heat content is as we go into August/September
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#135 Postby cycloneye » Mon May 14, 2007 1:41 pm

Bouy 42057 in Western Caribbean

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It confirms how warm the Western Caribbean area is.
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#136 Postby jasons2k » Mon May 14, 2007 5:54 pm

The Northern GOM - although not as warm yet as 2005, it has flipped in the last few weeks from below normal to above normal now.
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#137 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Mon May 14, 2007 5:58 pm

I'm impressed with the Caribbean, more TCHP then 2005. Eastern Atlantic and tropical Atlatnic appear cooler then the last 4-5 years overall. But that should help slow the devleopment of the waves intill they reach central tropical Atlantic or Caribbean.
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#138 Postby canegrl04 » Mon May 14, 2007 8:41 pm

Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:I'm impressed with the Caribbean, more TCHP then 2005. Eastern Atlantic and tropical Atlatnic appear cooler then the last 4-5 years overall. But that should help slow the devleopment of the waves intill they reach central tropical Atlantic or Caribbean.


When a TS reaches the Carribean,it can become a major hurricane by the time it is in the GOM
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#139 Postby drezee » Tue May 15, 2007 8:47 am

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#140 Postby flightwxman » Tue May 15, 2007 12:30 pm

Looks like time is catching up with the high sst's
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