#395 Postby Category5Kaiju » Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:48 pm
gatorcane wrote:Most models recurve (future powerful) Lee over the SW Atlantic. As far as 2017 and Irma which I see referenced in this thread, models clearly underestimated the ridge that year but then again that was a year with a very strong Bermuda High feature. Even so around day 10 the Euro was the first model to sniff out the big ridge showing Irma very near the Florida Keys (remarkable how accurate it was). This year the Bermuda High has been on the weak or non-existent side so would be surprised if models start to show some massive ridge at this point to drive Lee westward all the way to Florida. You can thank El Niño for that.
Then for 2018, which was also an El Nino year, was it just a freak occurrence that Florence went all the way from the Cape Verde Islands to North Carolina without recurving on out to sea? Or in 1965, which was another moderate El Nino year, Betsy looping and hitting Florida and Louisiana?
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