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Major Hurricane Irma


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2 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

The pattern is anomalous now, what normal major hurricane turns WSW in the middle of the Atlantic. Climo says Irma should be going NW right now.

What happens now wrt an "anomalous pattern", does not influence climo 8 days from now....plenty of canes have entered the NE Carribean (as depicted by many models, no matter how they get there).....the synoptic setup, as modeled, is very uncertain.

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34 minutes ago, csnavywx said:

It will weaken however, the speed with which it does so depends on several factors:

1) The size of the storm. The bigger and stronger the vortex, the more inertial stability it has and the longer it takes to spin down.

2) Forward speed. Faster speed gives it less time to weaken and adds the movement component to the wind speed on the right flank, keeping winds up on those quadrants.

3) Baroclinic/jet enhancement, if any. Some baroclinic (frontal) and/or jet enhancement via divergence aloft and/or enhancement of outflow can slow the weakening process.

Thank you very much for your detailed response.  

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2 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Look at the development of the trough and the wave pattern. It definitely caved towards GFS.

It seems that a lot of the 12z models have been coming to the overall pattern the GFS showed... still got ways to go, but still interesting that there are greater similarities to the GFS now (even if not guaranteeing the same end result)

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That a great run for the US. Enthusiasts get to see a massive cat 4/5 evolve with plenty of pretty Goes 16 imagery, and the rest of us are happy as there is low material impact, other than the significant wave action and rip tides, the inevitable rando being swept out to sea whilst surfing, and the retired couple on their sailboat that go missing beause they weren't paying attention, with eventual Coast Guard chopper footage of floating debris.

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