Seasonal Indicators (Beyond Day 16): Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Cooler than normal waters in the MDR to about 60W above 15N which means if systems stay below 15N they could develop in the MDR but looks like the Caribbean and GOM may end up well above normal which is a positive for development in those areas so based on that expect a lot of sub tropical Atlantic development and west of 55 to be quite active and possibly one big MDR system but not much more in the MDR
PS: watch the east coast also as the area east of the bahamas look to be primed for some storms
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PS: watch the east coast also as the area east of the bahamas look to be primed for some storms
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
tarheelprogrammer wrote:Do they normally start rolling off this early in the year?
Yes, it's normal.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
wxman57 wrote:tarheelprogrammer wrote:Do they normally start rolling off this early in the year?
Yes, it's normal.
Thanks I was thinking it was being pointed out because it wasn't. Stupid me lol.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Is it me or is the modeling predicting a weak or small Azores high {weak as in GFS small as in Euro}
if so what would a weaker Azores high mean for the hurricane season
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if so what would a weaker Azores high mean for the hurricane season
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Hurricaneman wrote:Is it me or is the modeling predicting a weak or small Azores high {weak as in GFS small as in Euro}
if so what would a weaker Azores high mean for the hurricane season
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A weaker Azores High could result in weaker trade winds. A lack of screaming easterly low level winds is one of the ingredients necessary for tropical waves to close off a surface low. Usually, but not always, it is difficult for tropical waves to develop if they are racing westward at 30 kts or more. This is one reason that waves which have not developed into cyclones before reaching the eastern Caribbean often don't do so until much farther west, near or past Hispaniola (assuming they don't plow over it while trying to organize). That's why the Bahamas, western Caribbean, and Gulf tend to be better locations for TC formation.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Yeah, while unsure of cause or effect, the strength of the Azores/Bermuda high is reflective of overall higher or lower than normal pressures along with those trades.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
I should think that a weaker Azores/Bermuda high (well, I suppose it'd be more toward the Azores if it were weaker this season) would also lead to some storms recurving earlier than they normally might, depending on location of development, of course.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
The waters around the Bahamas and Florida have warmed dramatically just in the past couple of weeks and have gone to below normal to above normal:




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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
To along with the post above, SSTs are much warmer so far across the MDR and Caribbean than this same time last year.




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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Warm MDR??? not sure what you guys are looking at? drastic cooling



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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
SFLcane wrote:Warm MDR??? not sure what you guys are looking at? drastic cooling![]()
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis ... pics_1.png
Oh please, CDAS always seems to suffer from bipolar disorder from day to day, give it a few days it will show contrary the opposite.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Here guys let me add more confusion.


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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
NDG wrote:SFLcane wrote:Warm MDR??? not sure what you guys are looking at? drastic cooling![]()
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis ... pics_1.png
Oh please, CDAS always seems to suffer from bipolar disorder from day to day, give it a few days it will show contrary the opposite.
Persistence of subtropical high will favor further cooling of eastern atl sst's
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
SFLcane wrote:NDG wrote:SFLcane wrote:Warm MDR??? not sure what you guys are looking at? drastic cooling![]()
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis ... pics_1.png
Oh please, CDAS always seems to suffer from bipolar disorder from day to day, give it a few days it will show contrary the opposite.
Persistence of subtropical high will favor further cooling of eastern atl sst's
Quick question will one or two degrees below normal affect hurricane season drastically?
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
That cold water in North Atl still looks ugly for a busy season per phil k.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
SFLcane wrote:NDG wrote:SFLcane wrote:Warm MDR??? not sure what you guys are looking at? drastic cooling![]()
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis ... pics_1.png
Oh please, CDAS always seems to suffer from bipolar disorder from day to day, give it a few days it will show contrary the opposite.
Persistence of subtropical high will favor further cooling of eastern atl sst's
All I am saying is that current SSTs at MDR is warmer than this same time last year. Your CDAS image shows cooling over the past 7 days, but not that it is as cool as last year.
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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
Here is a more current image, from the same site.
BTW, your image shows a bunch of years right by the temp anomaly index which tells me that it was just an average of analog years that somebody put up not that it was a current true SST anomolay for the Atlantic.

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Re: 2016 indicators: Instability / SST's / MSLP / Steering / Sal
This has been an interesting argument over SSTs. The map I posted does show it is pretty much warm all across the Atlantic and even areas that are below normal it is not a huge amount in most spots.
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