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Major Hurricane Irma


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31 minutes ago, wxmx said:

Agree. Look at what happened to Gilbert, Dean or Janet after crossing the flat Yucatan peninsula.

Yucatan is part of the continent though, Cuba is a thin island.  Sure it has tall mountains in some areas but you have to hit it just "right" (or "wrong") to get that effect- it's like threading a needle.  Sure it could happen and weaken the storm considerably, but I wouldn't count on it taking that track unless I was within 3 days of the event.

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Just now, NJwx85 said:

Looks like a lot of EPS members are well East

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As someone said a few posts back.  That developing tropical off Mexico in the W Gulf wreaked havoc on that run by messing with the setup somewhat to the east.  Too many features here which is making this forecast unusually hard 

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17 minutes ago, Hazey said:

Anyone have a link to a frontline weather station that will be the first to feel the fury of Irma? and a radar station?

Thanks

Here's a link to the Pureto Rico Traffic Cams. There's a active cam at the moment on the NE side of the island, and you can see clouds from an outer bank moving in. Many more in the San Juan area.

http://its.dtop.gov.pr/(X(1)S(gs1c44hygyqrjopsccxagpse))/en/Default.aspx

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1 minute ago, bdgwx said:

The spread in the EPS members at hour 120 is pretty big. The mean isn't very cohesive, but verbatim I guess I'd put LF at Miami close to hour 132. The EPS and GEFS suggest D5 forecast confidence is below average right now.

10 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Very interesting. 00z vs 12z EPS at 120. Rolled 00z forward 12 hours to account for time. 

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2 minutes ago, bdgwx said:

The spread in the EPS members at hour 120 is pretty big. The mean isn't very cohesive, but verbatim I guess I'd put LF at Miami close to hour 132. The EPS and GEFS suggest D5 forecast confidence is below average right now.

It's an abnormally large spread and the spread is pretty even, indicating how sensitive the track will be to small changes.

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3 minutes ago, csnavywx said:

It's an abnormally large spread and the spread is pretty even, indicating how sensitive the track will be to small changes.

Very hard to detect any differences in the EPS 500 mb mean and OP through 120.  The trough and ridge are nearly identical.

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3 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Very hard to detect any differences in the EPS 500 mb mean and OP through 120.  The trough and ridge are nearly identical.

The lack of crossing tracks suggest differences have a lot to do with the initial position and short term motion. 

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May not be worth it to get too caught up in these details at this point...but on the 12z Euro ensemble map above, the mean crosses 60W at about 17.4N.  However, based on extrapolation from a loop of the satellite images over the past few hours, it looks like Irma will cross 60W at about 17.2N.

In other words, Irma already appears to be slightly south of the 12z Euro ensemble mean track. 

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