Kingarabian wrote:NDG wrote:
30C SSTs all the way to the coast is more than enough to maintain its strengthening even if it was to be shallow warm waters, is moving fast enough.
And all those "Marco's cold wake may affect Laura" comments on social media don't look too good right now. The GOM waters are something else.
Yea, sometimes we forget that cold pools are departures from normal, which are still warm enough to support TCs. Also it's important to look at SSH gradient instead of temperature sometimes of these eddies; for example cyclonic eddies raise the thermocline, but displace it downwards as the PV tendency decreases downstream similar to the tropopause in the atmosphere; the reverse is true for anticyclonic eddies.