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This morning's DeepMind FNv3 1000-member ensemble mean coming in as a 56 KT Tropical Storm at landfall late Friday overnight/predawn Saturday
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Even though it missed a lot, this ASCAT is compelling
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Advisories likely coming at any moment.
Even without a recon mission, I'll share some initial best guesses as to future-Isaias's peak intensity. This is not necessarily intensity at landfall.
Invest-only (Currently): 0%
30-35 MPH TD: 1%
40-50 MPH Tropical Storm: 3%
60-70 MPH Tropical Storm: 11%
Cat 1 Hurricane: 13%
Cat 2 Hurricane: 20%
Cat 3 Hurricane: 23%
Cat 4 Hurricane: 22%
Cat 5 Hurricane: 7%
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HIgh end Tropical Storm at landfall (although it will likely become a hurricane before that) , however, I could be wrong, follow the official advisories. If it makes it to the forecast windspeed it would take a Milton like fall apart (weakening) to drop down. Increases tornado risk for well east of Landfall if that occurs though. I'd guess the other option is a jet hit and it'll stay larger longer.
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0z Models should have some of the high altitude recon jet to help figure out what's going on. Right now the satellite is fairly impressive, so wouldn't be shocked to see it get named tonight or early tomorrow. It'll probably rapidly strengthen before hitting the shear in the northern Gulf.
0z icon coming in stronger than earlier runs. Now that a system is there I'll probably be paying more attention to it tomorrow and thursday. (Been away most of the sleepy season)
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Back on Oct 2nd I opined, "The window is still open, but this is a window with a lot of doubts, and if anything does form, unlike a lot of the hype seen in social media, odds are really that it would be weak and/or short-lived, with only an outlier chance of a strong cyclone (maybe at best 10-15% of something below 995mb IMHO)."
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Incredible what just 4 days can do to change things. Turns out, then-92L ended up with everything going right for it. To this point, all the stars have aligned. This did not appear at all to be its baseline just a few days ago, and to be candid, I think a number of us, myself included, have been burned one too many times this season by the would-bes that ended up wrecked by high shear (record El Niño), so were also quick to buy in to the more tepid model solutions (of which the vast majority were up until the past 48 hours or so).
Tonight, the stars continue aligning for now NINE (possibly already a tropical storm but we have no recon or recent scatterometer pass inside to confirm). Initially, it looked to models as if the disturbance on the eastern Pacific side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec would develop first or at least early and strongly. The opposite has occurred. Consequently, higher shear that could have been battering 92L/NINE in its formative stages has been delayed enough so that the now tropical cyclone NINE might find itself with a developing inner core, about to travel across record warm Gulf waters and have divergent outflow to both its north-northeast and southeast, and perhaps even a bona fide outflow channel stretching off to its north-northeast as the entrance region of a developing and approaching subtropical jet streak passes by to NINE's north-northeast.
Models now largely buy into the continued all-stars-aligning scenario and thus many more ramp NINE up into a very significant hurricane.
There are still ways for the upper-bound intensity limits seen in an increasing number of model and ensemble runs to stop from verifying, but the number of ways is decreasing and so increasing the odds of a higher-end cyclone in the Gulf heading towards US land.
Shear is very likely to increase to moderate or even high levels prior to NINE making landfall on the Gulf Coast, but it is increasingly uncertain if shear will be high enough and early enough to induce significant enough degradation and weakening from what could be a beast of a tropical cyclone by Friday, heading towards US land.
As Mike noted, the high altitude survey data taken today will hopefully greatly improve forecasts that come out over the next few cycles and will have a better handle on all of this. Regular missions begin in earnest Wednesday morning.
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07 0z Globals+Hurricane Models Tracks
07 0z Intensity guidance
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The forecast location of future-Isaias is coming into the purview of high-resolution regional and convective-allowing models
Here's a first look at the 0z RRFS for Saturday morning just prior to landfall
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Hurricane models 72 hours out from 07/0z (for Friday evening) after ingesting Tuesday's upper-air recon data
All four 0z hurricane models make NINE a Major (Cat 3/4) on approach to landfall.
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Latest 0z (full) run of the high resolution RRFS possibly painting a reasonable upper-bound for the potential max wind gusts heading into landfall, provided stars continue staying aligned for now Hurricane Isaias
Note: This run does weaken slowly starting F050 (10/10/02z) as Isaias heads into landfall. Probably not the best boat day.
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The latest 0z hurricane model runs are rolling in. They have now assimilated loads of recon data.
Here are some 10m wind screenshots. Credits: TropicalTidbits
The first image is going to be 48 hours out from run initialization. The second image, if there is one, is of a given model's forecast for as close to landfall time as can be possibly shown here.
HAFS-A
Cat 4 at 10/0z
Rapidly weakening heading into landfall. Possibly upper-end Tropical Storm *at* landfall per this model run.
HAFS-B
Cat 3 at 10/0z
Weakening trend. Maybe Cat 2 heading into landfall.
HMON
Landfall actually occurring roughly around 48 hours out (10/0z). Possibly higher-end Cat 2 into landfall.
HWRF
Also with a landfall right around 48 hours out from initialization (10/0z). Also possibly Cat 2 into landfall.
All in all, there is actually a lot of consensus with these four models.
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It will be interesting to see the impacts to the broader Florida peninsula given all of the synoptic weather patterns that will influence Isaias. Will we see some squalls and tornados in central Florida?
Edited by OrlandoDan (Thu Oct 08 2026 08:35 AM)
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Given the cold front to the north and the jetstream pattern Levi mentioned in his videos this storm has the potential to produce tornadoes. If the forecasted weaken occurs tornadoes in AL, GA and FL might be the biggest threat here aside from the usual strong surge along the gulf shores.
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Credit: Google DeepMind/Weathermodels.com/Ryan Maue @RyanWeather
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