Steve wrote:Yeah. That could be a super beast. Shear or additional ventilation though, and the possibility of creating high pressure aloft? Relative juxtaposition is important. We saw it before in 1980 (which I don't see as an analog) with Isis and Allen but where the Gulf Storm was the 5.
Worth poiinting out that in 2004, Ivan and Javier were powerful hurricanes off the west coast of Mexico and the GOM yet nothing happened.