good on you for calling them out. the amount of outright wrong claims about this hurricane online/on social media are ridiculous… people saying “a category 5 is coming for nyc”… i’ve never seen it this bad
an interesting complication is that a slower/more south storm may have more time to be pulled northeast by a trough, as opposed to a faster moving storm. the 18z GFS kind of shows how this could happen
Euro/CMC OP have a very different evolution than GFS OP approaching hour 240. Euro/CMC OP have a stronger 2nd tropical disturbance off to the east and not much of a high south of Newfoundland, while the GFS has a strong high south of Newfoundland and no 2nd tropical disturbance.
An out-to-sea solution seems more supported to me but I'm still keeping an eye on this one for east coast from NC to Newfoundland
Edit: Also wanted to add that as usual things might become more clear once the storm has actually fully formed
I feel like usually in close range NAM is a little north and GFS is a little south, regardless. and the reality is somewhere in the middle (at least in the past few years of storm tracking)
this is completely anecdotal but it gives some idea of an upper and lower bound for me
Interesting gradient in NYC on the models - although in my experience from when I lived in NYC, that usually doesn't hold, and a changeover to rain around JFK is usually soon followed by a changeover to rain or at least sleet in Manhattan/Bronx