It’s truly extraordinary to see this kind of stuff so close to an event. Even if it’s 20mb too deep, I think it’d be an all time record for the region.
Really illustrates how much track uncertainty there is. Definitely worth watching even for the east coast because the latter period pattern could have a trough cutting off and ridge blocking an east escape path if it crossed into the Atlantic.
Starting to see much higher SFMR readings and FL winds. Eyewall is closed now too. No question that it’s a major now.
Off to the races tonight, I think.
Yeah I’m thinking it’s probably in the 940-50mb range which is already big time. It is extraordinary to see the ensemble members of the EPS be so deep though.
920s would be hard, but 940s/950s certainly look doable, especially if Fiona takes off further south and is slower to weaken. Like Ray said, the transition blows this up. The angle of approach probably maximizes potential too.
I’ve been closely tracking it for a few days now. It’s pretty incredible to see the EPS members throwing out these solutions. We’ll see if it verifies.