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Tropical 2021 hurricane season thread

Brent said:
What a wave
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This massive size of it may be why the GFS every single run has handled it so differently from the Euro/UKMET/ICON. The GFS every time has seemingly been focusing on the southern part of it and keeping it very weak and moving WSW early vs those other 3 focusing on the northern part and having it become well organized quickly and moving WNW to NW right away.
 
ICON has a weak feature next Thur/Fri track would be interesting if it were to actually be something.,.....

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GFS/Euro showing another Mindy like setup along the Texas coast early next week

The euro apparently shows a big flooding event for Houstonecmwf_z500_mslp_us_6.pnggfs_z500_mslp_watl_17.png

The northern portion of a tropical wave is producing disorganized
showers and thunderstorms over Honduras, the western Caribbean Sea,
and portions of the Yucatan peninsula. This system is forecast to
move into the Bay of Campeche and merge with a pre-existing surface
trough located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico by this weekend.
Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive to support
gradual development, and a tropical depression could form Sunday or
Monday before the system moves onshore along the western Gulf of
Mexico coast.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.
 
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GaWx said:
This massive size of it may be why the GFS every single run has handled it so differently from the Euro/UKMET/ICON. The GFS every time has seemingly been focusing on the southern part of it and keeping it very weak and moving WSW early vs those other 3 focusing on the northern part and having it become well organized quickly and moving WNW to NW right away.
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I remember back when Hurricane Floyd came off Africa. Thing was massive in size. This reminds me of that. Hopefully not same fate.
 
Regarding the AEW just now moving off Africa, interestingly, the 6Z Euro was about its weakest run yet along with a slightly more SW track, suggesting it is moving toward the GFS idea of it staying weak and not recurving so sharply. Remember when the Euro was coming off Africa way up at 20N? Also, the GFS has in recent runs been trending toward a slightly higher latitude track and a little earlier recurvature of a still weak but perhaps slightly stronger low than the numerous runs bringing it across very weak to the Lesser Antilles near or south of 15N before moving WNW. So, the Euro and GFS are finally starting to come together a little better as each moves closer to the other’s solution. The consensus now seems to be for a mainly weak low that recurves east of the Lesser Antilles and never threatens land after the CVs with it not being strong near the CVs. But all of that still remains to be seen, of course.

There is now within the big wave a tight ball of convection with probably a LLC of sorts just offshore near 14N, 18W moving seemingly WSW per the visible loops. Let’s see whether or not this area ends up being the focus of this AEW and, if so, whether or not it develops further

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Edit:The Euro suite doesn’t develop this and instead delays development til late tonight in the same area moving WNW. Perhaps that is why there has been such disagreement between the GFS and Euro.

Here’s an IR pic showing that tight ball of convection:

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Icon wants to develop a weak wave before this that moves into the SE and then develops this guy right after … next week looking interesting 4F3CAE02-A48F-41F0-A484-558838D011E8.png
 
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