Hypercane_Kyle wrote:I'm not seeing this "split" you guys are talking about. Looking at the v850mb maps the systems on the GFS are clearly two separate waves. NHC agrees with this and has two separate waves mentioned on the TWO over Africa with the potential for development.
Partly correct, we do have some merging of a wave behind this one essentially. It's really a perturbation of the original wave axis, but fracture would be pretty close.
You can follow the wind barbs at 700mb (mid-levels) to get a better idea. Here is the analyzed 00z GFS with the first wave axis highlighted in purple and the other wave axis highlighted in green:

24 hours later, we start to see the northern axis split off (purtple) and dive towards the SW at the mid-levels, the lower axis of the wave (red) is still there, we can see it in the mid-level wind barbs. Meanwhile, the wave axis behind (green) will start to rotate over the top of the leftover wave axis and they essentially merge.

Here is the loop of that process. Again, this is ONE model solution of a very complex evolution, we'll see if it gets any support from the ECMWF/ensembles:
