Not really. Maybe in the MDR but October is when development pushes west in the Caribbean and GOM. Look at Wilma, Sandy, Michael, Matthew, Delta, Zeta.
Last two GFS runs finally had something to look at long range. Maybe we'll see more stuff pop up on today's runs. Kinda crazy that it's August 20 in a forecasted hyperactive season and there's basically nothing on the horizon. I definitely can see october being busy based on the last 5 or so years.
I hate to pull an ldub here but I'm itching to see something else on the long range models. Strange that all models now reach to the end of August and there's still nothing on the horizon after Ernesto. This season is definitely impressive with assuming Ernesto makes MH, we'd be at 5/3/2 by mid August, but I'm still not seeing the upper 20's named storms as many predicted.
Dude, Bermuda is a tiny island alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. No one has any idea right now if it will hit it or pass by safely. Might be best to take a breather and just watch what happens.
What's your point? GFS didn't show 98L developing until three days ago (Aug 7, 12z) and it looks like that will likely be a mjor hurricane. GFS long range doesn't know how to forecast cyclogensis and means nothing.
Yeah, radar with the eye now makes it easy to see it's direction. Definitely northeast. This path looks like it would take it between Ocala and Gainesville.
Hell yeah, a NOAA plane just took off from Lakeland... that should be in the storm in no time. The AF plane from Biloxi should be there a little bit after. Hopefully they are fully fueled and can stay in for a while. Will be interesting to see how it strengthens from pass to pass.
I'm not sure why this is a weenie take. The storm has a clear low level center with convection popping overhead, and will be traversing some of the hottest water in the world right now for the next 400 miles, along with what appears to be good atmospheric conditions. This along with GFS showing a landfall pressure of 983, I think cat 2 is clearly on the table right now.
Convection popping right over the low level center right now. I think it's off to the races. Wouldn't be surprised to see this pushing cat 2 at the Florida big bend landfall.
Not only the current wave in the central Atlantic, but both Euro and GFS are also picking up on the wave behind that too, also heading into the Caribbean. That's a good number of long range ensemble members showing development with very few showing an out to sea curve. Ominous look at only mid-August...