A tropical wave over the Bahamas has now been given a 70% chance to become a tropical system over the weekend. It could approach the Biloxi / NOLA area early next week as a minimal hurricane.
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A tropical wave over the Bahamas has now been given a 70% chance to become a tropical system over the weekend. It could approach the Biloxi / NOLA area early next week as a minimal hurricane.
17 you 2020!!
How minimal?
I just got home from Texas working the Hurricane, we still have Logistics sites setup in LC.
Here you go Cc24
Disturbance 44 is now located across the Bahamas. This disturbance is moving to the west at 15 mph. It is very disorganized and the environmental conditions are currently only marginally favorable at best for development. The trough looks to move into Florida from today into tonight and then into the eastern Gulf on Saturday before turning to the northwest into the northeastern Gulf from Sunday into Monday. Once the disturbance gets into the eastern Gulf, the environmental conditions are forecast to become more favorable. Therefore, the chance of tropical development is now 40 percent.
Here's how you find out. Take your pistol and a deck of cards.
Throw the cards in the air, shot a single card. Whatever that card is...will represent the last number of the wind speed. Now look for the next card you seeing face up.. the very next one. that's the first digit of the speed.
Then look for a Face card. Think Jack - Cat 1, and so on till Ace - Cat 4. If you get the joker card... well it is 2020 and you should just go back inside and know the world is ending.
One wind strength forecast had most of the models in the 70-85mph range, but until it actually forms and gets in the Gulf then nobody knows for sure. Working in our favor is it will have to go over FL which will do it no favors and then it won't have but s couple days over water. Working against us is that water is hot tub quality.
That forecast method seems shoddy to me. You are very likely to get conflicting results where your two digits for windspeed leave you with <100 mph winds but then pull a face card that describes a Cat 3 or Cat 4, whose lowest max wind speeds are >100mph. Just seems like an obviously bad model.**
Now a depression. Forecast is to remain a tropical storm and make landfall around Biloxi Tuesday afternoon.
LA Nina is setup to stay... Tropics aren't gonna die off for a while longer... And gonna be a warm winter.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3457447001
Afraid you're right. Keep waiting for an El Ni?o to ramp up the spring severe weather season. La Ni?a can be a kick to the sack for that.
Guy on my chase team has read something from nhc where they were all but saying this will end up a hurricane. If it can come across FL reasonably intact I tend to agree.
Hey SVD give me a call on where you want to set up. Monday the Boat parade will be in full swing. Got the best site available to film it.
Very much depends what happens over likely next 12-24 hours. The llc is very far north of the convection and the mlc. If the mlc pulls itself down to the surface, then the storm might stay offshore and go thru the straits of Florida. If that happens a lot more likely becomes a hurricane. Will have to deal with a good bit of shear for the next 24 hours.
Will do. As of now I am planning on being down. Probably leave Monday when I get off work. Probably means I'd miss the onset of tropical form storm winds. One thing of note...with the current track that would put the entire MS coast in the right front quadrant for a prolonged time so there will be a definitive tornado risk for a long time.