Hard to buy the far west tracks with the strong SW shear. Upper winds sometimes end up steering the storm more than modeled. There should be a NE drift once it gets into the Gulf induced by the upper winds and the front to the NE. This is pretty much what the UKMET ICON and Euro are showing.
Wouldn't be shocked if the center reformed under that northern blob. They are generally better at reforming centers than southern blobs and with the weak messy structure the center is very up for grabs right now.
Yeah just keeping fingers crossed the 18Z Euro and Icon are wrong about the intensity. They had some issues with Harvey in 2017 and Delta in 2020. Both those storms took off pretty fast.
That looks ugly, might still be a tropical storm when it hits Cuba if that verifies. It has 36 hrs of very favorable conditions but if the initial low is weak and disorganized it won't be able to take advantage.
GFS is the furthest west of any model so it''s probably wrong.
One reason is it might be having some convective feedback issues in the 42-96hr time frame. Convective blobs appear to reform the center further west several times in this timeframe.
With cooler waters and increasing shear, it's possible the pressure doesn't change much between now and landfall. Just a big expansion of the windfield due to ET transition.
Family good track agreement from the GFS and Euro for 10 days out. GFS is quicker with development as usual.
Also looks like another weaker solutions stay further south deal on the ensembles.