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Tropical Storm Isaac, Part 1: Moving Through The Eastern Caribbean Sea


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This system is huge on visible.

http://www.ssd.noaa....y/vis0-lalo.jpg

Yes, but it also appears to have a robust, tight central circulation given those recon obs and satellite. I know the convection near the center looks rather putrid, but it is dmin and there is sitll evidently a bit of shear. My suspicion is if/when this gets into a better environment (probably as it approaches the Islands) it could gets its act together pretty rapidly.

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Yes, but it also appears to have a robust, tight central circulation given those recon obs and satellite. I know the convection near the center looks rather putrid, but it is dmin and there is sitll evidently a bit of shear. My suspicion is if/when this gets into a better environment (probably as it approaches the Islands) it could gets its act together pretty rapidly.

That's what I was going for. It is large and looks dangerous. dmax could be interesting tonight to see if it really goes off.

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Is this a "wobble" or is soon to be Issac gaining latitude fast?

http://www.ssd.noaa....h-vis-long.html

While the storm is gaining latitude, I think it appears to be more than in reality thanks to the new blow up of convection that is going up on its southern flank that has been moving northward in an attempt to wrap into the center. I wouldn't expect a huge latitude gain over the next 24 hours given that the convection is focused on the south and west flank of the circulation, which will make the center more prone to center relocations or wobbles in that direction.

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Almost a 0° heading from 216 to 240, so probably more Mobile straight-line.

There´s a building strong ridge north (590+dm), it should probably turn a bit W later, it could even miss it to the W verbatim, but obviously that´s a bit over the top for a 10 day forecast extrapolation...

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That 12z euro run was full of winning. The players on the field are the same as the Euro has the trough swinging down similar to GFS in the long range but Euro has stronger ridging in the first 5 days and it allows it to get further west.

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The Euro definitely continues the trend of having a stronger ridge which this summer has been overdone compared to the GFS...

That said, my only real beef with the EURO is that I think its too slow with the movement through the Caribbean...I think Isaac gets to the Gulf faster than Day 7...

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Well the 12Z Euro has thrown out an interesting solution. It's good to see that we've somewhat entered the "windshield wiper" period between the GFS and Euro. At least that means we can start narrowing down a decent solution for the future of this system.

One thing to keep in mind is that the NOAA gulfstream mission should give us a better idea of the strength of that ridge at 23/1730Z, and that could change the outcome of the models. I wish they were flying sooner, though.

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956 and bombing... Look out. Idk if I buy a track like this yet as the system is moving more WNW right now. 0z will be telling with actual fixed plot.

ECWMF is now a pretty extreme outlier - even the couple of GFS ensemble members that end up that far west don't get there by heading west to the Yucatan and then north, they go directly.

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Euro is only plausible if the low doesn't develop for 6 days and stays weak enough to ride the ridge that far west at that speed. I'm not buying it but, hey, it is the Euro.

The euro may be preventing intensification in the Caribbean until Sunday because of interaction with the high terrain of Hispaniola.

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