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New Africa Wave

#1 Postby alienstorm » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:15 pm

A new and rather impressive wave came off Africa today, I have been tracking this one for the past few days over the contientent. We will need to wait and see how it develops but the way thing have been so far this year I would give it a 50/50 chance for development by the weekend.
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Re: New Africa Wave

#2 Postby Gustywind » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:17 pm

alienstorm wrote:A new and rather impressive wave came off Africa today, I have been tracking this one for the past few days over the contientent. We will need to wait and see how it develops but the way thing have been so far this year I would give it a 50/50 chance for development by the weekend.

ok tkanks any sat pic please???? :)
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#3 Postby HURAKAN » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:26 pm

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#4 Postby O Town » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:32 pm

Was just about to post those HURAKAN 8-)

Nice looking ball of convection but it seems a little too far south.
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#5 Postby HURAKAN » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:35 pm

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#6 Postby Gustywind » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:08 pm

O Town wrote:Was just about to post those HURAKAN 8-)

Nice looking ball of convection but it seems a little too far south.

And what's the matter? Explain your idea? Do you mean that it won't developp or not? :roll:
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Re: New Africa Wave

#7 Postby cycloneye » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:47 pm

Looking good.

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Re: New Africa Wave

#8 Postby Windtalker1 » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:33 pm

I'd also watch that little swirl in front of that one around 14/38. Me thinks it has a chance to start impressing us also.
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#9 Postby HurricaneHunter914 » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:44 pm

Big scary blob of convection with favorable conditions ahead looks scary. :eek:
But like all african waves, the convection will soon wane. Still, really impressive for July. August and September are gonna be scary.
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#10 Postby jhamps10 » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:16 pm

HurricaneHunter914 wrote:Big scary blob of convection with favorable conditions ahead looks scary. :eek:
But like all african waves, the convection will soon wane. Still, really impressive for July. August and September are gonna be scary.


but still it's large size of convection will certainly help it out in possible development I would think. I say a 55/45 shot for development.
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Re: New Africa Wave

#11 Postby Just Joshing You » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:22 pm

This does look nice, but it won't start anything major until it gets past 10 degrees.
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#12 Postby KWT » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:25 am

That certainly is a huge convective mass, will have to see what it looks like in 24hrs time though before getting too excited about this.
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#13 Postby Gustywind » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:57 am

Somewhat active in the tropics
Wayne Verno, Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
5:09 a.m. ET 7/17/2008
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/

Another low pressure area, currently void of any organized thunderstorms, was located west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, moving west. This area will continue to be monitored over the next few days; right now, there are no signs of any organization.
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Re: New Africa Wave

#14 Postby Blown Away » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:21 am

Almost a 600 mile wide blob of convection. That's a whopper! Do we have any models that develop this wave?
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#15 Postby Meso » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:25 am

Large view of wave

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Re: New Africa Wave

#16 Postby Thunder44 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:08 am

Looks interesting. We'll have to wait to see if it holds together, in next few days.
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#17 Postby DESTRUCTION5 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:15 am

This must be the one the GFS had as a CAT 5 over PR..LOL
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#18 Postby Frank2 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:44 am

It's south of 10N and moving into the ITCZ, so...
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#19 Postby DESTRUCTION5 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:49 am

Frank2 wrote:It's south of 10N and moving into the ITCZ, so...



Yea never fear Frank is here! LOL
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#20 Postby Frank2 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:09 am

LOL

I purposely stayed away from here on Monday, when everyone was jumping up and down over 94L - glad I missed that hootenanny, especially since that's my new policy while at work - it'd be too much of a distraction to read all of those "Head for the hills - SHIPS shows 397 knots in 96 hours!" posts...

Or, something like that...

You must admit, the Atlantic basin went from busy to non-busy in 24 hours...

As Paula Dean (Food Network) would say, "Ya'll need to calm down some!"

Have a good day,

Frank
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