Hugh
(Senior Storm Chaser)
Sat Oct 08 2005 02:35 PM
Re: Its here - 22L

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just a quick post - FNMOC now have the system between Bermuda and the Caribbean up as 22L. expect advisories to be initiated at 1500z.




It will be a fish-spinner/name-user. A month and a half plus left in the season, and we'll be down to Wilma.

Clouds have started to pick up on the northwest side of the remnants of Tammy... which now appears to be moving eastward across the north GOM... low should move inland north of Tampa without any formation, though.

Well on second thought.... Bermuda has issued a tropical storm watch... and the computer model on WU has it move WNW to NW and approaching the east coast in several days before turning NE out to sea.... so it MIGHT not be a fish spinner after all.

Subtropical storms have only been named for the last few years (I forget exactly when they started naming them)... but this could become tropical anyway.
they started naming them around 2002... believe gustav that year was the first. before that it was numbers but more often classification at post analysis (the TWOs would mention a nontropical low that might acquire tropical characteristics for a few days but the nhc would never issue advisories). -HF



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