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cptcatz

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  1. 955 mb on this new recon pass. NW winds no higher but we'll need to see the NE pass
  2. Euro initializes at 996, crosses the islands at 990, continues to deepen in the eastern Caribbean reaching Jamaica at a staggering 966, and then weakens. This is similar to what Icon showed. The question is are these models correct with how conducive for strengthening the eastern Caribbean is? Both models showed it deepening by 30 mb in that time. Could we be seeing a 930 mb storm near Jamaica?
  3. It's clearly north of due west. The current 5-hour satelite loop on TT shows the eye starting at 10.5 N and ends at 11 N. At the same time it went 1.5 degrees latitude. So the slope of the path is roughly 1/3. That track would miss Barbados and probably just south of the Saint Vincent island, bringing it through one of the small Grenadines islands.
  4. Icon and CMC both show a strengthening strong hurricane making landfall in Texas. Still 7 days out but I wouldn't discount a chaseable situation on the gulf coast. That's why Josh moved to the gulf coast, he can just make a day trip drive from his house to chase a storm.
  5. Not sure how much reliance to put into Icon but this run brings it into Galveston at its lowest pressure of the run...
  6. Interesting run of the Icon coming in right now. Obviously it's initializing way too high at 1004 mb but by the time it hits the islands it's down to 989 and then it continues to intensify all the way through the eastern Caribbean to where it's at 971 just south of Jamaica in 72 hours. The massive takeaway from that is it's forecasting an extremely conducive environment for the next 3 days...
  7. Looking to back to the first TD advisory (Friday 5pm, not even 48 hours ago), the NHC forecasted at this point it would be between 60 and 75 mph storm. With the 8am being at 115 mph and coming up on the full 11am advisory in a few minutes, any guesses on what the max forecast will be? I say they forecast 135 mph by tomorrow morning with an actual recorded max of 145 mph before leveling out in the Caribbean.
  8. A non-saving grace for the islands could be the second hurricane to hit the same spot 3 freaking days later...
  9. If you're going to bring up global warming, you'll need to account for all global tropical cyclones, not just one basin. All other basins have been completely dead this year and global cyclone frequency has seen no increase over the past 40 years.
  10. If it hits the islands as a major there's a good chance it will be retired. Here's a question for the history buffs: how many major hurricanes have made landfall and not retired? Idalia from last year fits that bill. Any others?
  11. This is far more interesting to me than any typical June homegrown slop. If we're getting this kind of MDR signal in late June, what the hell is September gonna bring?
  12. Interesting to see the models get slightly more bullish with every run for the Atlantic system. 12z euro brings it right over my house so I'll be watching that...
  13. IIRC the only thing that brought Irma back down a little was the eye skimming the mountains of Cuba. If it tracked like 50 miles northeast at that spot, Miami could have been looking at a direct cat 5 hit.
  14. I think it would slightly increase the odds if storms develop out there but I think a bigger factor for recurves is the strength of the Bermuda high and whether or not the storms find the weakness to turn. The high temps also don't necessarily mean storms will get strong out there, as we've seen the last few years shear and dry air have been shutting down the MDR quite a bit.
  15. Back to back euro runs show the Caribbean storm miss the front and lingers, strengthening into a hurricane...
  16. Might be time to start discussing the Caribbean potential storm. GFS is now with development insie 4 days. Euro not seeing it but has support with EPS.
  17. Anyone know what kind of building codes they have there? These high rises look modern with sleek glass but I wonder how well they are actually built...
  18. Last two runs of GFS going all in with a cat 5 in the western Caribbean
  19. It was. Look through the first couple pages of this thread. A lot of talk about recurves and analogs to 2010 which had similar tracks.
  20. Interesting because if you asked somewhat what to expect with an El Nino and record hot Atlantic, that's exactly what you'd expect.
  21. Both areas, the MDR wave and the east coast system, are looking juicy this morning. Surprising neither are invests yet.
  22. 18z GFS weenie run bringing a major hurricane into Norfolk at a right angle, front right quadrant going into Chesapeake Bay...
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