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The remnants of Gaston are continuing to dump lots of rain and spawning Tornados in southeast Virginia.
The 5PM Update has the track a bit to the left, placing the risk for the Florida Peninsula up higher. Assuming the track verifies, landfall would occur Saturday. It's too early to pinpoint where exactly it will hit too (and what strength). (GA And the Carolinas aren't out of the woods yet either)
Folks along the entire Florida East coast must watch this system over the next few days. Watch for trends in the models. If they trend westward Palm Beach down to Miami will need to watch, if the tracks hold then central Florida will need to watch more
If they trend right, then a brush will happen and the Carolinas will need to keep watch closer. If the more southerly route happens, it could become a gulf concern as well.
To restate the National Hurricane Center, it is extremely important not to focus the exact track, especially at the long ranges the maps show. The hurricane isn't a point, and is a large system. Forecast errors that far out can be off several hundred miles. Don't use the "point track" as a guide right now.
Stay tuned.
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Tropical Storm Hermine is getting close enough to Southeastern Massachusetts to cause Tropicla Storm Watches along the coast there, including most of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Expect a nasty overnight there.
The remnants of Gaston are near the North Carolina and Virginia borders right now dumping loads of rain and some minor wind.
The biggest question for most people is about Hurricane . This weekend will be interesting for Florida and the Southeast. It becomes another race for recurvature similar to other storms with this path in the past... The question does it reach Florida before it curves or not?
It is indeed prudent to begin thinking of advanced preperations for the storm on the labor day weekend in Florida and southeast.
Although its still a little too soon to tell where it may wind up. I'd suspect to know somewhat better Wednesday. Models have trended left and right over the last day or two (left would mean more impact for Florida, right would put the Carolinas in the eye) Of course projections that far into the future aren't worth much.
With the latest model runs, it trended back left again. But I suspect it'll change again. Beware the hype with the storm, but keep focused on it during the week if you live along the areas including east coast of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas
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http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TAPA.html
Pressure down to 29.88
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Storm Cooper
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I think most agree we will know better by mid week and too much going on now but now a new Invest in the picture... way out so not a problem for now.
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Rasvar
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Looking at some of the latest model runs, it looks like the current forecast track is to the right side and even outside of model consensus. Wonder if they will make a significant move to the left at 5:00 or hold on for another set of runs before doing it?
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000
URNT12 KNHC 301845
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 30/1813Z
B. 19 DEG 23 MIN N
59 DEG 21 MIN W
C. 700 MB 2666 M
D. NA
E. NA
F. 017 DEG 89 KT '
G. 296 DEG 26 NM
H. 948 MB
I. 12 C/ 3072 M
J. 17 C/ 3022 M
K. 17 C/ NA
L. CLOSED
M. CO 18-48
N. 12345/7
O. 1 /1 NM
P. NOAA3 0506A OB 09
MAX FL WIND 89 KT NW QUAD 1806Z
Is strengthening???
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joepub1
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Hurricane hunters say they found the pressure back down to 948 mb this afternoon.
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ShaggyDude
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Recmod, where did you find the report, and is there a site that tells one how to read it?
Thanks
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It's on the page. Here is the link..which also explains how to decipher:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/reconlist.shtml
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wxman007
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Yeah, she looks like it on sats...the satellite representation has really improved today...I'd be shocked if she isn't strengthening...
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TPC finally issues a TS warning. This storm is at 50MPH moving north at 22 right straight towards Cape Cod and it doesn't seem to be getting weaker. There should have been a recon flight. Not much warning for marine interests.
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Hi Everyone,
To all along the East Coast and inland, PLEASE make your preparations now. I was just at the local Walgreen's, and most of the batteries are gone. Plywood and generators are going fast as well at the Home Depots. I learned my lesson from . Also, they are picking up debris in and around Orlando from which tells me that the city is concerned as well. All those downed trees can be flying projectiles.
Stay safe!
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Thank you greatly, and I agree with Jason, that she looks very impressive on the satellite, and she well most definatly be upgraded, the only questions are to what degree and how will it affect us long-term...
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I brlieve the intensity level is down...89kt flight level should not support 120mph...but we'll see. The sat pics show that is now moving north of west pretty much as predicted.
My question is what the role of the ULL now rotating ove the Southern Bahamas will have on track...It has not moved too much today...If it stays south and west of , it could enhance inensity and help throw the storm back to the west in a hard turn, as some here and some of the model graphics seem to now begin to suggest.
Any way for now, I sense the intensity will fall to CAT II.
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Last two frames of floater 1 show what appears to be our first north (actually more like wnw) wobble...wonder if she's thinking about making that turn soon...interestingly her 's remained at 5.5/5.5 so maybe she isn't strengthening...however, now that the bird has given the recon data...the pressure drop would certainly lead one to believe she's strengthening...Guess we'll know more at 5:00.
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948 seems more like strong Cat 3/Cat 4 than Cat 2. Perhaps they have not foundt the strongest winds yet
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Keith234
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If the pressure dropped how could it not be strenghting, aren't storms classified by their pressure? I hope she makes the turn soon, otherwise the northern leeward islands would be recked.
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wxman007
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Wind increases usually lag behind pressure drops by about 6-8 hrs...it will take a little while before the winds respond to the lower pressure.
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Colleen A.
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I don't know if they'll make a major adjustment to the left, but based on those new model runs + their concern over the model run, they may move it a little bit back to the left. It has been going back and forth for the last few days, which is normal. Time will tell.
I checked out the UKMET run that was posted (by Phil I think?) and if that verfies than Florida is going to be one big mess. They still haven't finished cleaning up all the debris here, either...and there is plenty of it. It will be a knock-out punch for all three parts of the state -- east coast, west coast, inland and northern gulf coast of Florida.
Imagine all the people coming here for the end of the summer weekend...and how many more people will have to evacuate? Ok, well that's all speculation and I really shouldn't do that, but I can't help it.
I'm beginning to feel like Dorothy in Kansas. The 5pm & 11pm discussions will be very interesting. So will the new tracks. If it does speed up, we may be looking at trouble earlier than we thought.
Or not. 
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Yes, the pressure falls would indicate strengthening. Those are obtained with instrumentation on the plane and dropsondes, so I'd say that's much more reliable than the winds they found. As Alex said, maybe they haven't found the strongest winds yet. We'll know more at the 5:00. Hope Stacey Stewart gets to write it!
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Allison
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I posted this on the previous thread a few minutes ago before I realized a new thread was up and running... 
Looking at the WV loop, the front appears to extend pretty far into the GOM, so why isn't it expected to pick up and pull her N-NE like it did with Gaston and Hermine?
Did I miss this in an discussion somewhere? 
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