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Sun Dec 09 2007 02:27 AM

Re: late entry?

Caught my eye, too, HF. Looks to me like it could certainly get up on NRL, should it hold up a little bit longer. An Invest floater is already up on it.

I think it was in December of 2005 (no surprise there) that we had a very healthy tropical wave cross westward across the Caribbean.

TAFB has assigned it an ST 1.5 tonight

Quote:

105 AM EST SUN DEC 09 2007
TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION FOR NORTH AMERICA..
BASED ON 0000 UTC SURFACE ANALYSIS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0515 UTC

...SPECIAL FEATURE...
A SUBTROPICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ST1.5 WAS ASSIGNED TO A LOW TO
MIDDLE LEVEL CYCLONIC CIRCULATION NEAR 18N54W. A SURFACE TROUGH
IS ALONG 53W/54W FROM 14N TO 23N. LARGE-SCALE MIDDLE TO UPPER
LEVEL CYCLONIC FLOW AROUND THIS FEATURE ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY
COVERS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND CARIBBEAN SEA FROM COLOMBIA
AND VENEZUELA ALONG 8N TO 25N BETWEEN 47W AND 80W. A MIDDLE
TO UPPER LEVEL TROUGH GOES FROM 22N52W TO 12N63W TO THE
SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA.

Speaking of off-season features, that Kona Low which battered the islands the past few days had really acquired a pretty sweet flareup of convection centered over its llc, for a good while. Rather impressive subtropical cyclone - I saved an image of it available here.