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Atlantic Tropical Action 2011 - Part III


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I like the strong rise in the NAO and the implication of higher heights across the subtropical Atlantic for increasing potential of long distance successful transport west of CV systems at the time we have classic double ejection off the west coast of Africa. The latter of the two has the better shot as the lead is used to bull-doze the SAL out of the way for the 2nd system, which has striking cyclonic appeal in late images this day. Suspect we have an early bloomer out there, and this is spot on for the first of the two intervals flagged by the Roundy Prob product going back some 20 days.

Interesting intimations in this for an interconnectivity in the global system, having Probs bloom on top of 200mb UVVs going nuts and the NAO timing well - seems a little hefty for mere coincidence. I like that.

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I like the strong rise in the NAO and the implication of higher heights across the subtropical Atlantic for increasing potential of long distance successful transport west of CV systems at the time we have classic double ejection off the west coast of Africa. The latter of the two has the better shot as the lead is used to bull-doze the SAL out of the way for the 2nd system, which has striking cyclonic appeal in late images this day. Suspect we have an early bloomer out there, and this is spot on for the first of the two intervals flagged by the Roundy Prob product going back some 20 days.

Interesting intimations in this for an interconnectivity in the global system, having Probs bloom on top of 200mb UVVs going nuts and the NAO timing well - seems a little hefty for mere coincidence. I like that.

If it blooms early wont it be more likely to recurve?

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If it blooms early wont it be more likely to recurve?

In general ..yes, absolutely. For more than any other reason, a long time out there is a long time to endure potential permutations that lead to pulling TCs out of the deeper latitudes. That's really what all those numbers are showing; although there are papers out there that veraciously show that certain patterns are more conducive to long trackers.

I have not published any papers but have studied over the decades a tendency for leading rise in the NAO that leads to increased potential for farther west result, particularly for those along the 20-30N rail service. Intuitively, I believe this is related to the strengthening ...more importantly stretching (longitudes) of the ambient subtropical ridge(s).

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It would be a new system. The vorticity max associated with Emily is a completely distinct feature and has moved well off to the northeast already.

I've been tracking the disturbance near 25ºN, remnant Emily took on an almost frontal look, and this part of it broke off. It showed up on yesterday's GFS tracking into the Gulf, and I ran the 850 mb vorticity backwards, and it came off the Southern end. It might not be from Emily, exactly, but it is from the disorganized blob that was former Emily and was lemonized until yesterday or last night.

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I've been tracking the disturbance near 25ºN, remnant Emily took on an almost frontal look, and this part of it broke off. It showed up on yesterday's GFS tracking into the Gulf, and I ran the 850 mb vorticity backwards, and it came off the Southern end. It might not be from Emily, exactly, but it is from the disorganized blob that was former Emily and was lemonized until yesterday or last night.

This is definitely not Emily. In fact, I would argue that it is a completely separate feature, and pretty much nothing of Emily (save for maybe a little moisture) broke off. See loop: http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/janiga/rtmaps/plan_maps/nam/850_wind_rvor_sf/850_wind_rvor_sf.html

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This is definitely not Emily. In fact, I would argue that it is a completely separate feature, and pretty much nothing of Emily (save for maybe a little moisture) broke off. See loop: http://www.atmos.alb...nd_rvor_sf.html

Its not the main show with Emily, I wasn't trying to say that, the almost frontal looking vorticity that remnant Emily was involved in was forecast to pinch off by yesterday's GFS, and break Southward. And it appears it has.

Not an expert, but it at least came from some of the lemonized area former Emily was in, looked something like what the models show (and rarely happens) when a remnant frontal trough tries to develop. Since it is amateur/hobby part time, I usually run the 850 mb vorticity backwards on models to see where something might have come from. If I get ambitious I run 700 mb equivalent temps frontwards and backwards, they look a lot like the CIMSS TPW product.

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The feature near 25N/55W is looking more and more interesting with each passing hour. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this will probably go on to develop into a TC within the next few days. This already has good low-level vorticity per CIMSS analysis and shortwave IR imagery, it's in a low-shear environment and will remain so over the next few days, and there's quite a bit of convection bubbling up in the vicinity. The ECMWF has developed this over the past 2 runs, but carries this out to sea as it's unable to get trapped under the ridge. Not sure where this is going to go at this point, since the ECMWF and GFS both split the vorticity into two separate pieces, with one piece going WSW towards land.

The funny thing is that there's a respectable chance IMO that this ends up being upgraded to a TD before either 92L or 93L.

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The feature near 25N/55W is looking more and more interesting with each passing hour. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this will probably go on to develop into a TC within the next few days. This already has good low-level vorticity per CIMSS analysis and shortwave IR imagery, it's in a low-shear environment and will remain so over the next few days, and there's quite a bit of convection bubbling up in the vicinity. The ECMWF has developed this over the past 2 runs, but carries this out to sea as it's unable to get trapped under the ridge. Not sure where this is going to go at this point, since the ECMWF and GFS both split the vorticity into two separate pieces, with one piece going WSW towards land.

The funny thing is that there's a respectable chance IMO that this ends up being upgraded to a TD before either 92L or 93L.

While interesting, I'm assuming you'd agree that this would have virtually no chance of making it to the U.S. due to nothing being there to really push this that much further westward and prevent a northward turn.

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While interesting, I'm assuming you'd agree that this would have virtually no chance of making it to the U.S. due to nothing being there to really push this that much further westward and prevent a northward turn.

Not necessarily. There seems to be two distinct possibilities here, and each are pretty much completely opposite of each other. It's plausible that this stays shallow and gets steered around the low-level ridge (and loses latitude in the process), or it could get picked up by the westerlies. This is illustrated by the bimodal nature of the models.

A TC originating from high latitudes and moving to the southwest around the periphery of the high, although highly unusual, has happened before (Edouard 2002 comes to mind). Although I'm not saying that this will happen, the possibility should not be immediately discounted given the current synoptics.

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Not necessarily. There seems to be two distinct possibilities here, and each are pretty much completely opposite of each other. It's plausible that this stays shallow and gets steered around the low-level ridge (and loses latitude in the process), or it could get picked up by the westerlies. This is illustrated by the bimodal nature of the models.

A TC originating from high latitudes and moving to the southwest around the periphery of the high, although highly unusual, has happened before (Edouard 2002 comes to mind). Although I'm not saying that this will happen, the possibility should not be immediately discounted given the current synoptics.

Cool. Gives us something to hope for, at least. It does seem like it's just S and W enough that it could possibly work its way toward the mainland.

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Euro ensembles from 0Z seem to suggest anything not deep in the Caribbean would recurve before the US Days 7-9, but by Day 10, the trough is far enough North anything much below about 25º would be able to on a Westboundward course, leaving South Florida and the Gulf potentially open.

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The 12z Euro fwiw has a pattern that as of 240 hours is somewhat favorable for an east coast hit with the troughing out west and ridging in the east to probably last for a few days from then, which would at least temporarily open the window.

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