Steve wrote:ConvergenceZone wrote:AxaltaRacing24 wrote:
Umm did you forget about Gaston, Fiona, TD8, and Hermine? Those developed in 2016 in the past 2-3 weeks.
Still, I should have clarrified. Don't expect anything major. It's been 10 years since a major hurricane has hit the US. This year has been an anomaly and very flakey in that we've had more activity then what was expected.
Expected by whom? It seems like the general consensus was that there would be storm numbers in the teens, ACE would be somewhere around 100 (with some guesses much higher and some much lower), it would be a Western-biased season (which it has been), and the US was in play. North America has been hit already by Bonnie, Colin (earliest C storm on record), Danielle, Earl and Hermine (5 of 8). I'm not following unless you're saying that you didn't expect?
Looking at the 12 GFS, it continues to show no development whatsoever. They didn't just "tweek" the GFS, I think they gave it quaaludes lol. I wont repeat ad nauseum what I posted in the 92L discussion but I believe that 92L will develop probably in 3-5 days. One thing of note is that for the first GFS run out of the prior 12, it appears to take most of the moisture and energy with 92L SOUTH of the islands. On each of the prior 11 runs, the GFS tracked the system essentially over them. I'm going to guess that we'll begin to see the GFS become at least a little more bullish on this particular system during the upcoming 3 or 4 runs. As for this season thus far, I couldn't agree more with you, Steve. One wrinkles that I think this season has produced somewhat unexpectedly might be some of the longer tracks originating further east in the MDR than many expected. Otherwise, the only other wrinkle might be the continued high SAL evident. But despite this condition, this Atlantic hurricane season has thus far easily met the level of anticipated genesis that forecasters, prognosticators, weather enthusiasts, readers of S2K, and even my dog "Butch" have anticipated thus far. As for Major hurricanes.... it's Sept 2 - lets see how the next 8 weeks play out.