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Remember Debby 2000...Hispaniola could do some weird things to the center, pulling the southern vortex into land (via orographic effects) and stretching vorticity from NE to SW. If that's the case, then 96L may slow down in the next 24 hours, allowing it to reform its center farther north, deepen more, and feel the trough to its north--a situation favoring recurvature. Tonight's 00Z ECMWF is the most important model to watch. If it holds with its path, then recurve off the East Coast is practically certain.

Don't understand this post at all. The significant spread among the ECM ENS members indicates a low confidence forecast in track.

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Models can't really cope with global weirding,

( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding )

 

The appearance of what is actually out there seems to show that it will drift west; once it is far enough west it can't exactly (re)curve ; it will depend if the ULL and trough entering the Pacific northwest part of the continent can move past the weeks-old stagnant Gulf block (that is the cause of bringing up the "global weirding" concept.)  It will be easier to see a possible course in the morning, thankfully. 

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The intensity is way off on 00z GFS. With that upper level environment to work with and very warm SST's this system should be exploding. It's north of 18z but way west of 12z and 06z.

The intensity on the 00z is significantly stronger than what the 18z was showing so it's a step in the right direction. Perhaps the 00z track further north is a result of a stronger solution.

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The intensity on the 00z is significantly stronger than what the 18z was showing so it's a step in the right direction. Perhaps the 00z track further north is a result of a stronger solution.

 

Here we are at day 5... the next trough is starting to dig into the the midwest, and there is only weak anticyclonic flow to the north of 96L at this point with a stronger mid-level ridge to its east steering it northward. Close but no cigar here.

 

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Models can't really cope with global weirding,

( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding )

 

I'd say "global weirding" is the dumbest term/concept I've ever heard of (unsurprising coming from a laughable hack like Friedman) were it not for the even sillier idea that models can't cope with it. Model tropical cyclone track forecast accuracy has steadily improved for the last 30 years.

There is nothing more utterly routine than 96L and it's track forecast uncertainty.

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Pretty substantial shift in the 00z GFS ensembles... very few early recurving members, most siding close to what the GFS was suggesting. Again the GFS ensemble is underdispersive so its likely not capturing the full PDF of solutions possible with 96L, but still the leftward shift and decrease in spread is notable.

 

gfs-ememb_lowlocs_watl_8.png

 

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Fwiw nhc area discussion for key west, miami , and Melbourne write this off . I just went thru them all and i think Jacksonville is only one to even mention slight track uncertainty.

Miami disco updated to include a bit of uncertainty regarding the track of the tropical entity, Melbourne still writes it off. Seems like those people writing them didn't find it significant  to highlight the uncertainty of the ensembles.

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Miami disco updated to include a bit of uncertainty regarding the track of the tropical entity, Melbourne still writes it off. Seems like those people writing them didn't find it significant  to highlight the uncertainty of the ensembles.

They both mention uncertainty

 

MLB: NOTE: FCST WILL HINGE ON THE FUTURE TRACK AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE   

TROPICAL DISTURBANCE N OF HISPANIOLA AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO SIG   
CHANGES.    
 
MIA: BUT IF  
THE RIDGE BUILDS STRONG ENOUGH AND THE TROUGH IS NOT QUITE AS DEEP  
AS CURRENTLY BEING FORECAST THEN A WESTWARD SHIFT IS NOT OUT OF  
THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.
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The 06Z GFS continues to shift W as the upper ridge builds E and 96L stays far enough S and misses the trough. There has been a subtle shift left with the track guidance overnight and that trend may continue today. A G-IV mission is tasked for Sunday and that should greatly assist the deterministic guidance regarding the strength of the Ridge moving E into the Tennessee and Mid Atlantic Region early next week.



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Typically one would expect an increase in upper sounding data requested by the NHC and WPC across the Eastern Region for the 12Z suite and beyond. That possibly could extend as far W as the Southern Region as well.

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