ECMWF, CMC GFS are in good agreement on a TS south of Jamaica at 72hrs. It drifts southwest into central America on all models but takes varying amounts of time.
It doesn't have time to deepen into a major Hurricane on any model however.
The IR appearance is finally starting to degrade.
Amazing because radar has been showing only a few whisker bands in the SW half of the storm since landfall
Maybe it strengthens a little. If the pressure only fell 12mb in the last 12 hrs,, it's not going to make CAT3 extrapolating that rate over the next 6 hrs.
This looks similar in intensity the last 3 Hurricanes to hit SE LA.
Gustav, Isaac and Nate.
It was a raw T 7.4 at one point last night.
I think the window to deepen has just about ended. It will probably hold this intensity +-5mb up to landfall.
It's the ULL forming a new system and Zeta getting ripped apart. CMC and even the Ukmet show Zeta being ripped apart over the apps. I think the Euro holds onto Zeta too long. It's not going to cross the apps and still be a 988mb low.
Euro looks strange between 90 and 96 hrs. The low is racing NE and then suddenly takes a jog back to the SW and weakens. I can see it slowing down or taking a turn to the SE, but the SW movement doesn't make sense in a fast flow.
Epsilon weakened a lot last night, but has made a very quick comeback the last 3 hrs. Eye is back out and T numbers are back up to 4.6. The west side of the storm looks healthy again.
2020 can be added to the list now, Aug-26th - Oct21st Laura, Teddy, Delta , Epsilon.
A very good season, but the alphabet record was padded with namewaster storms.
NHC issues a special 2pm advisory 958mb 110mph
Florence November 1994 is the closes analog. It didn't deepen as fast but reached a similar intensity and took a similar track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Florence_(1994)