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there's still some convective banding with andrea... just a little. andrea didn't have much of an environmental window to organize... once it's baroclinic energy began to wane it just managed to hybridize, and is now reaping the reward of being a weak tropical system in a dry, marginal environment. the pre-andrea low was still quite a coastal storm for this time of year. there seems to have been very little benefit as far as drought-relief, but the rest of the storm's side effects seem to have helped the wildfires more than anything. andrea can continue drifting south, and probably not find any help as far as warmer waters go. the nearby environment should become increasingly baroclinic this weekend and the remnant will probably become involved and whip out to sea, just like the forecast says. aside from nicole in 2004, andrea is now the only named subtropical system that was operationally tracked that didn't become fully tropical. i mean, it still could, but very unlikely. HF 0326z11may |