#51 Postby chaser1 » Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:30 pm
..what a mess I am, LOL...meant the following for this thread, but originally stuck in the discussion thread...."mess fixed"
Not sure who mentioned it (may have been from the 95L Discussion thread), but I would agree with a prior observation made this a.m., that 95L just doesn't look like its moving all that quickly. That, and its increasing organization might be causing pressures to further drop a bit and thus potentially aiding a temporary slow down or stall. That all said, I'd throw out all of the dynamic models at the moment at least until they might get a somewhat better handle of this system after a few runs. I might guess that a somewhat deeper and more organized system that perhaps exits the W. Yucatan Penninsula a few degrees further north might cause the dynamic modeling to better (or at least differently) analyze how this might gain more latitude in light of the possible breaking down of the ridging in the Northern Gulf. Timing IS everything, and if 95L were somehow able to sit and simmer for an additional day with not too much westward advance, than I could easily see a forming storm just entering the S.W. Gulf potentially moving towards the N.W. or even NNW.
Such a scenario could be a potential hurricane threat to the Central Texas coast, and perhaps depending on the timing of the trough that will be swinging through, could well even "push" the storm suddenly off to the East or ENE. I'm trying to remember such instances from the past but seem to think that those few circumstances that I remember something like that, there were also increasing upper level westerlies that impacted some shear (unless the system was negating that shear by its own changed forward motion). I recall other later season storms that responded to an approaching trough that just started to become baroclinic...but that was likely end of Oct. or Nov.
Bottom line, any near term increasing development along with a stall, slower WNW motion than anticipated, or simply a formation a little further north than earlier anticipated might make a significant impact in what comes out of this. How 95L develops might also prove out why some models were more robust on developing one single system that eventually threatens some part of the Conus, verses other models seeing a weaker and more southern forming system that follows Ingrid's path just to have yet another area of residual vorticity to then slide north along or ahead of the Eastward front over Florida.
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Andy D
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