(Former Meteorologist & CFHC Forum Moderator (Ed Passed Away on May 14, 2017))

Sun Jul 20 2008 09:41 PM

Re: TS Dolly Heads Toward Cozumel, Cristobal Drifts NE, Bertha Now Extratropical

There is no need to get folks alarmed at this juncture. In 2004 the synoptic situation was quite different. An unusually strong late season cold front and upper trough was plowing through the eastern Gulf of Mexico. That was the mechanism that captured Charley and turned it to the northeast. No such pattern exists tonight and no hard turns in either direction are either likely or anticipated.
ED

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