Storm Hunter
(Veteran Storm Chaser)
Fri Aug 15 2008 04:27 PM
Re: Watching the Wave Near Puerto Rico

Well... the ? is about to be answered... do we have Fay or a TD?

One Navy site has 06L.NONAME and the other has 06.FAY.

The NHC noaa tropical run suite has:

TROPICAL CYCLONE GUIDANCE MESSAGE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
2000 UTC FRI AUG 15 2008

DISCLAIMER...NUMERICAL MODELS ARE SUBJECT TO LARGE ERRORS.
PLEASE REFER TO NHC OFFICIAL FORECASTS FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE
AND SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE INFORMATION.

ATLANTIC OBJECTIVE AIDS FOR

TROPICAL CYCLONE FAY (AL062008) 20080815 1800 UTC

So what is it? guess will find out in a min or two. By the way i am very suprised they upgraded over land... must be the Doppler Data and the winds offshore that made them UPGRADE? I thought they were waiting for it to close off a center... from what i can tell... i don't see a clear sign of one... but it may be there over the mountains?

UPDATE: looks like 5-day has florida in the cone.. crossing florida moving NE


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