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Johncn
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Re: 90L Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Evan Johnson]
      #86155 - Sat Aug 15 2009 11:14 PM

Yep. Excellent. Curving more northerly (except the UKMET), and a much better looking result for us. Thanks.

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Re: 90L Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Johncn]
      #86188 - Sun Aug 16 2009 08:38 AM

Is it just me or does the 06Z GFS run put Bill as a major hurricane heading directly torwards New York City?

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Re: Bill lounge. Where is will go? Models and Best Guesses [Re: MikeC]
      #86219 - Sun Aug 16 2009 12:15 PM

Bill continues to look good,very good.Yesterday most of the models had it going very different than they do today.So now we will see what they do over the next few days.Look how the models changed in just 24 hours.A lot going on,a lot to watch.

I am thinking maybe Wednesday we will have a better handle on where Bill is going.

Edited by Ed Dunham (Mon Aug 17 2009 09:36 AM)


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Re: 90L Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Hurikid]
      #86231 - Sun Aug 16 2009 12:56 PM

Am fascinated how the European model ( often one of the more respected ), had forecasted yesterday a much more "poleward" track than nearly all other models. In fact, given the GFS 500mb data, I would have bet my last dollar that at minimum, this storm would have a 270 degree motion for at least 48 hours. Heck, what would seem to be quite a respectible 594mb heights at the mid levels, would seem to prevent any temporarty change in latitude. Naturally, the orientation of any mid level troughs or high pressure ridges have as much to do with overall motion as well. Here is where the data as we see it reported and spit out by computers, is so important. Forget 7-10 day forecasts, so much importance exists simply for accurate current analysis.

So much for my meteorological diatribe on the importance for proper funding towards the necessary tools to aquire more thorough and accurate data, thus to aid and advance the science of meteorology....

As Bill continues to deepen, I can only imagine that any low level steering influence would become fully irrelevent, and that most models would have a much better handle on future motion. Of course, this has now occured, and much more confidence exists today, than yesterday. This said, is New York or other points on the E. Coast out of the picture yet? I would say no. Recent patterns across the CONUS, would seem to have more cut off lows dropping out of Hudson Bay, but only to drop south a little, and then get caught up in a fairly progressive westerly flow. This flow has been shunted fairly north, and there have been less hanging troughs off the Eastern seaboard than in numerious other years. Timing is everything, and Bill could eventually go through substantial deepening and slow down a little, or maintain a slightly more westward track than forecast due to its relative larger size. Point being, that if a weekness does in fact cause Bill to move more northwestward towards the later end of the forecast, if such a weakness pulls up fairly quickly, and strong ridging builds ( or bridges ) over the western Atlantic, than a bend back towards the WNW could ensue. All the more reason that the entire Eastern seaboard need pay attention.

Way to far out for anyone to have much confidence in any forecast. For the moment, my best guess would be a bend back towards the Carolina's. No doubt, i'll be paying a bit more attention to the Euro long range, than most of the other models with this one.


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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: MikeC]
      #86266 - Sun Aug 16 2009 03:15 PM

The GFS today has Bill recurving out to sea, never making landfall as well as whatever forms behind it.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: MikeC]
      #86271 - Sun Aug 16 2009 03:31 PM

Quote:

The GFS today has Bill recurving out to sea, never making landfall as well as whatever forms behind it.





That would be great news!
I am just waiting to see if that changes by say Wed or Thur.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: ftlaudbob]
      #86286 - Sun Aug 16 2009 04:28 PM

Bill looks VERY impressive on satellite now......Hurricane at 5 o clock?

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Hurikid]
      #86380 - Tue Aug 18 2009 09:19 PM

Bill is now a Category 3 hurricane. The most likely scenario is still a recurve, but it's worth watching to see if anything changes.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: MikeC]
      #86402 - Wed Aug 19 2009 03:18 PM

yeah i agree, anything can happen. im just still waiting for that nothernly turn already.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Evan Johnson]
      #86422 - Thu Aug 20 2009 10:42 AM

The most recent model runs seem to be tending a bit more westward bringing Bill very close to Cape Cod. If I were there, I'd be beginning preparations for the worst case scenario. Waiting until Saturday is not an option.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: MichaelA]
      #86429 - Thu Aug 20 2009 02:13 PM

You may be correct. It will not take too much of a deviation west to place eastern NE in Jeopardy. The forward speed is already 18 and once the turn occurrs that will increase too. Wasn't it in 1936 or so when a massive cyclone came from nowhere to hit Long Island Rhode Island and Mass.? I think it took about 18 hours to clear from the Bahamas to land fall

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: doug]
      #86430 - Thu Aug 20 2009 02:33 PM

The infamous LI Express, moving at 70 mph
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/38hurricane/weather_history_38.html

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Ed in Va]
      #86432 - Thu Aug 20 2009 03:27 PM

FYI just watched the latest Bastardi video that contained his forecast. He is on the left side of the current forecast track and used the analogs of the synoptic features that influenced Edna in 1954 as his guide. Thought you would appreciate that Ed since Edna is one of your reference storms.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: doug]
      #86433 - Thu Aug 20 2009 03:36 PM

Thanks...Edna's track http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edna_1954_track.png . Look about 300 miles east of Bill's projection.

I was only 4 that year, but was told the local expression is Maine , in 1950's jargon, was "Carol was a lady, but dig that Edna!" My only recollection from one of the storms, probably Edna, was watching a huge tree fall. I never saw another fall until Isabel, when a number of them went down in my neighborhood.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Ed in Va]
      #86434 - Thu Aug 20 2009 03:38 PM

The track for the 1938 hurricane.



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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: Ed in Va]
      #86435 - Thu Aug 20 2009 03:41 PM

Looking at that track, good ole bill will have to track well inside 70W to duplicate that scenario, or stay on 70 and be going north...He is at about 63 W now and the official track keeps it at 69.5 W or so...next 12 hours should tell us a lot.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: doug]
      #86436 - Thu Aug 20 2009 04:23 PM

Here's a link to the data here at this site with all 2 of those storms plus bill on there.

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Re: Bill Lounge Best Guesses and Long Range Models [Re: MikeC]
      #86437 - Thu Aug 20 2009 04:30 PM

Good graphic. Bill is quite a bit to the east of the other two and we're light years past '38 and '54 in being able to forecast tracks. There is no practical reason to doubt the NHC projection.

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