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SNE "Tropical" Season Discussion 2020


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Impressive that the NHC is sticking with such high formation probabilities on this with the Euro dismissing it and it looking like its a long way from getting its act together. I would take the under on 90% in five days for sure.

 

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Not speaking for NHC's policy but...the Euro has a history from my own experience, at downplaying TC genesis...It does fine once the storms are deeper formulated and perhaps 'detectable' - so it seems ...- in the initialization grids. But prior to that, the model does not seem to 'zygote' TCs based off mere ingredients that are present in the environment. 

Contrasting, ...the GGEM is overly volatile in that regard...taking very little provocation shy of a f'n cumulus cloud ... it runs along and develops them into Cat 4 tempests within five or six days...  

That was all 10 years ago, tho.  Not sure what recent year's performances and how those are comparative to any modeling enhancement with the tropics, since.

It's tricky though, ..because the Euro and the GFS: ...the former is a finer meshed model and all that ... with the sophisticated correction schemes and blah blah...but its actual physics are hydrostatic, meaning it relies upon geometric altitude. Contrasting, the GFS is a non-hydrostatic model... using pressure coordinates.  By virtue of the tropics, that requires a hypsometric resolution.. and since hypsometry is the integral PV=NRT into the hydrostatic, which is purely altitude, it seems that "might" be why the Euro has trouble with momentum at the lower bounds of TC realization... Which cannot be resolved ( don't believe ) without the vertical resolution and actually pseudo -adiabats are involved in that...duh - to wit, the tropic model/TC is a  vertical physical/convection machinery, converting the latent heat to rising motion, is converting thermal energy into a mechanical energy - it really is an extraordinarily elegant, naturally occurring efficient engine - way waaay more so than the internal combustion engines invented by human ingenuity that interestingly...if we keep using, will stop the former eventually.  etc.. we suck yet again...and so on, enjoy your breakfasts... 

So, it seems the Euro would be less better?  It is certainly seeming at times too conservative to 'get things going,' that much is prevalent in memory and experience.  It may be that it just doesn't have the grid resolution of data in the tropics to populate the grids, too, but with sat sounding so sophisticated these days that's getting to be harder sell...   

Just thought I'd give the novice engagement of this site a well-deserved pop-cycle headache by saying those words - so run along for you Advil

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Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

Something this big and broad often doesn’t explode quickly in a great environment, let alone one with SAL lurking. Models have struggled with TC genesis and intensity this year.

Watch the immediate environment and go from there. The model watching will drive you up a wall.

yeah, it's a huge systems, definitely drawing in some dry air.. once things are less hostile this should develop.

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Mm...I would add that momentum isn't the only thing wrong with trying to move this elephant's ass... 

There is a huge envelopment of SAL that is wrapped cyclonically into the wester circumvallate of the best perceived cyclonic region ...actually looks like the stinger on a TC death hornet

 

 

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See those fractals and shrapnel of SAL inside the busted ravioli region of the blown open vortex ....???

that's what's left of the venom once it is ingested and mixes with, and ultimately physically stops the pseudo-adiabats from timely release of latent heat... 

The way SAL works/is theorized...by the way ... is that it infuses "too much of a good thing" into the cloud seeding levels of the sounding... Such that when condensates are super-proficiently gather early system doesn't benefit from the time-corriolis part of the dynamics, and the system is effectively stopped from organizing mechanically -  

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6 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

So, if it develops it will probably be slower and end up pushing short term forecast further west 

This isn't a bad assumption or guess or ..surmise...or insight ( pick whatever is less offensive and extends the best adulation ) ...

Because as we know, shallow systems tend to run along with the trade vectors...and the steering/integral with the streering level needs the virtue of actually having a vertical structure to tap into that level... Such that sustained updrafts are then influenced - 

In a way... the quasi-coupling with the oceanic heat source is crucial in that it is not absolutely coupled...if so, it would always shear apart...but, it sort of sinusoidally cycloids/tilts ...where the direction of the storm motion always leans some imperceptible amount in the direction the storm is moving - .... heh...cool!

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Meh... looks to me like an incremental step by the GGEM/NAVGEM....etc, toward a suppression - reluctant capitulators to the Euro ...just need another two or three cycles to have this down to a TW southwest of Jamaica... 

But, at least it spurred 7 pages of profligate consumption of fossil fuels to power the internet and the engagement for absolutely nothing - lol

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Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

Am I missing something? I see 45kts at 90.

At any rate, hard to know anything without knowing where the LLC is. I’m starting to favor the western lobe of convection, which may favor a more western track and stronger system given the current convective trends. Still, a western track increases the risk of a Hispaniola visit IMO. That’d do serious damage to 92L.

yeah, seems less hostile for western lobe and better chance to develop, I guess recon is going in later today?

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So bearing very little resemblance at mid level tropospheric layout and/or synoptic evolution ... those forcing governors manage to relay a TC ( assuming so...) up the EC similar to the track and speed behavior of Irene ... At least per some of the operational versions that are more coherent with development... 

Granted, the Euro and GFS are not impressed with this system and never have been. That said, even these guidances have come around ( a little bit ..) more polished with the developmental complexion of the would-be TC .. overnight.  It may still yet be that the system is being under-done therein, pending a better detection of actually existing in the initialization grids for these global numerical models.  Contrasting, these other guidance ... such as the stellar performing NAVGEM and the shimmering gallory of mediocrity museum-able GGEM...to mention the HWRF ( wooh, bestill our quaken dystopian lustful hearts) may simply be more physically sensitive to parametric variables - thus don't need as much to development matters further. Speculating.... 

Earlier in this thread I was of the school that there was no way to get an EC crawl and/or expresser given the season trends - and of course... proving the existence of metaphysical forces governing all... summarily the pattern begins to change toward one that would, only "seemingly" by pure coincidental timing.   We'll have to see ...

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4 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Assuming this system forms, overall there is pretty good agreement in the overnight ensembles of a TC moving up the east coast and passing southeast of ACK.  Hopefully a large transitioning cyclone that can throw some rain back our way. 

Hopefully it crashes directly into LI

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