Dean4Storms wrote:Crazy runs right there. The 12Z GFS had strong ridging out east of FL and now this run it vanishes.
Might be that way for longer than most would care to admit. I really don't think that steering currents are dominant enough. Yes the ridge would appear to be expanding westward (thus model shifts generally west) but its not all that strong, and you might continue to see runs well east of Fl--even as time dwindles down with the ultimate track to be more along the western end of the model runs. All things being equal the storm's inertia carrying it there, until finally further west-- Extreme E GOM there is enough weakness for the storm to be picked up.