ATL: GORDON - Post-Tropical

[DestinHurricane]

Is a track farther east towards pensacola possible?

[SunnyThoughts]

I don't think I"ve ever seen anything like that in my life. And Im freaking old.

[MGC]

Will be interesting what recon finds when they punch the center soon.....MGC

[RL3AO]

The core reminds me a lot of those micro canes in the BoC.

[bella_may]

I don’t think RI was expected... but maybe I missed something

[Kazmit]

The rate that Gordon is strengthening is making me wonder if it's possible that this could get to major hurricane status before landfall. It's unlikely, right?

[FLpanhandle91]

Is a track farther east towards pensacola possible?

Looks like a weak ridge has set up over the panhandle which will keep Gordon west.

[stormhunter7]

All the wx stations in Maro island are still showing below 25mph! Very small core then! Also, feeder band storms to se of island coming up with be rotating for sure.

[Aric Dunn]

anyone finding any observations down there ? where the eyewall thing is scraping the coast ?

[johngaltfla]

I don't think I"ve ever seen anything like that in my life. And Im freaking old.

I do remember watching Sir Charles off our coast go from a middling 1-2 to 4 in 2 hours. But old Gordo has more real estate to work with. Let's hope there isn't significant RI overnight.

[Steve]

The rate that Gordon is strengthening is making me wonder if it's possible that this could get to major hurricane status before landfall. It's unlikely, right?

How fast is it strengthening?

[EquusStorm]

That might be the quickest I have ever seen activity in the Atlantic go from "ehh" to absolute freakout mode, ever

[stormhunter7]

Going with 5nm wide eye on recon pass.

[floridasun78]

look east eye wall if it one will kiss coast line

[drezee]

I don’t think RI was expected... but maybe I missed something

Been saying this since Friday night!

Do not write this off. I still think this will be a TC in the GOM. Pattern is tricky, but loaded. Euro maybe having issues bundling energy south and north of the islands. It could actually spin up before FL ...

I tried to let everyone know that the euro was having problems bundling because of islands. This has happened before. Get prepared!

I will explain a bit more:
If you look at the 850 mb vorticity @ 8/30 12z Euro run, you would see the model holding back vorticity because of interactions with the DR mountains. The physics have done this multiple times with storms that pass directly over DR. The difference is that southern part of the wave accelerated south of Cuba. This allowed addition inflow and bundling north of the islands. The convection last night in the mona passage indicated the unmodeled convergence. The new euro sees it now. We will likely see a scenario that a TC strengthens all the way into the coast. Frankly, this setup has a very high ceiling (may not achieve, but possible).

[FLpanhandle91]

Makes me wonder if the mid level winds haven't mixed down to the surface yet.

[BYG Jacob]

The rate that Gordon is strengthening is making me wonder if it's possible that this could get to major hurricane status before landfall. It's unlikely, right?

How fast is it strengthening?

It built a core in less than 2 hours

[RL3AO]

I'm curious to see the pressure fall from recon and over the next couple hours before I start calling for anything over 70 KT at peak, but I've been wrong about 7 times already today so you can ignore me.

[Kazmit]

The rate that Gordon is strengthening is making me wonder if it's possible that this could get to major hurricane status before landfall. It's unlikely, right?

How fast is it strengthening?

It was still an invest last night, and now its probably a mid to high end TS.

[BYG Jacob]

I'm curious to see the pressure fall from recon and over the next couple hours before I start calling for anything over 70 KT at peak, but I've been wrong about 7 times already today so you can ignore me.

Just one of those storms that lives to prove you wrong. It happens