gatorcane wrote:HurricaneMaster_PR wrote:The European model keeps recurving the system before reaching the islands
12Z run
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/ECMWFTRO ... ml#picture
That may be but it's not recurving it well east and we are talking medium to long-range still.
Plus after it passes a little north of the islands I see it gradually bending back WNW and the trough is pulling out of the Western Atlantic by 240 hours.
A long way to go with this one folks with where it ends up, assuming it develops.
Here is the 12Z ECMWF loop showing the bend back to the WNW just north of the islands:
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/ECMWFTROPATL0.5_12z/ecmwfloop.html
Yes, there appears to be a narrow ridge that will build back in. If the system stays weak it may get trapped and allow for strengthening in the Bahamas. I posted this on the global model thread. The August anomaly shows a small ridge that has persisted off the southeast coast.
