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Wanna-Be-Storm-Chaser
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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: MadDog]
      #54150 - Wed Sep 07 2005 09:22 PM

Yeah, either closed due to winds or closed do to flooding and we know how much of that we have around here.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: MikeC]
      #54151 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:02 PM

#104 Published Wednesday September 7, 2005 at 9:30 pm EDT
http://www.kn4lf.com/flwx1.htm

As weather forecasting is still an inexact science, this not for profit weather discussion is not for use in lieu of official sources, is not for protection of life or property, is for educational purposes only and is subject to human error and acts of God, therefore no guarantee or warranty implied.

Once again sorry for the recent silence as I had been in the moving mode from Plant City to a newly purchased house in Lakeland since Sunday August 27th. Only now have I recovered from the ordeal.

At the 8:00 pm EDT NHC/TPC advisory T.S. Ophelia continues to be quasi-stationary. She has a sustained wind of 50 mph, is at position 28.8 deg. N 79.3 deg. W, with a minimum barometric pressure of 29.35" a slight fall since 5:00 pm EDT.

Looking at latest NWS Melbourne, FL NEXRAD radar as well as IR and WV satellite imagery, she continues to get better organized, with convection wrapping around the center of circulation. However she also continues to suffer from just enough southerly wind shear so that most convection is absent in the south and east quadrants. It appears that wind shear will increase with time so I doubt that she will reach CAT 1 hurricane strength in the near term. But as she is over very warm water anything is possible.

Where is she headed? Well quite simply it's totally impossible to accurately forecast a stationary tropical cyclone and as usual the models are quite useless. Eventually a mid latitude shortwave trough will swing by to the north and give Ophelia a tug to the N-NE. But how much of a tug will be determined by the strength and position of the trough. I think the trough will pull her N-NE but not pick her up and send her out to sea. Then we will see high pressure ridging develop to the north and that will swing her around in a clockwise looping motion and head back for the east coast of Central Florida as a CAT 1 hurricane, much like Jeanne. But once again this is no more than educated speculation at this time.

Hurricane Maria is only a threat to shipping and Hurricane Nate will brush Bermuda and then head for the shipping lanes too. There are several other tropical disturbances currently in the Cape Verde wave train and as usual will have to be monitored.

I've had no opportunity to comment on the horrific tragedy that unfolded in LA, MS and AL last week with Katrina. I had made a prediction of 10,000+ fatalities and it appears that it may come to fruition. Personally very soon I'm going to travel to AL and MS and hand out food, clothing and $$$ to victims. One very serious lesson that needs to be learned is that you can never depend on government to protect you and take care of you.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: MadDog]
      #54152 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:02 PM

NWS/HPC forecasts Ophelia to head WSW into Florida on Days 6 (Tue) and 7 (Wed) according to their MRF discussion:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/medr/medr.shtml


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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: duck13]
      #54153 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:08 PM

Talk about sitting and spinning in one place all day. Its like I never left the computer except it now has a closed eye according to the attached radar link out of Melbourne.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/mlb_N0Z_lp.shtml

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: duck13]
      #54154 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:10 PM

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NWS/HPC forecasts Ophelia to head WSW into Florida on Days 6 (Tue) and 7 (Wed) according to their MRF discussion:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/medr/medr.shtml




I don't like those images. Change them, please

Actually it's not that far-fetched unfortunately.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: VG]
      #54155 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:22 PM

Has Ophelia started to be affected by the gulf stream and is it still as warm as it was when Katrina was getting her act together?
I had a dream several years back about a hurricane going in to Jacksonville and heading south through Tampa Bay. This was after Andrew and before Floyd that I dreamed this. In the dream politics was blamed for a great deal of death and destruction. I am not saying that any of this is going to happen, it is just a dream that stayed with me all these years. It looks like from some of the model plots that it is coming true and the politics could either be the current ones regarding Katrina or more for Florida. I am so hoping that my dream world is just composed of too much publicity and is totally bogus. On the other hand, if the experts that you trust start telling you to get out or to evacuate. Please do. I am not sure if the country could stand more death and destruction in this year.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: GuppieGrouper]
      #54157 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:36 PM

not much change.... pressure up a mb?

REPEATING THE 11 PM EDT POSITION...28.9 N... 79.3 W. MOVEMENT
...STATIONARY. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 50 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 995 MB

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: damnedcat]
      #54158 - Wed Sep 07 2005 10:44 PM

It's interesting to hear that Volusia County is closing schools due to high winds, as we in Jacksonville ponder upcoming decisions. I'd hate to be in charge of the school board or anyone making decisions now. Ophelia is supposed to be thisclose off of our coast, it looks like you could swim out to it. I mean, how do plan for that? At 75 miles one little wobble is all it takes. I suspect we wouldn't know until the last minute if it's going to head closer.

Darn confusing storm!


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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: Storm Hunter]
      #54160 - Wed Sep 07 2005 11:02 PM

Well, the pressure going up is a good sign. If Ophelia has been sitting and spinning in the same area for almost an entire day, she has to be pulling some of the heat out of that water .... "upwelling" is the technical term for that, I believe. She cannot keep feeding on the same waters forever.
I just so Joe B. on FNC. He's okay sometimes, but I really hate the "everyone pat me on the back" stuff and then he said that Ophelia could go anywhere. DUH.

Footnote: I will be leaving town tomorrow for a week. I fully expect to come back and welcome Ophelia. ;-)

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: GuppieGrouper]
      #54161 - Wed Sep 07 2005 11:02 PM

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Has Ophelia started to be affected by the gulf stream and is it still as warm as it was when Katrina was getting her act together?




Currently the Gulf Stream is about 41mi off of Canaveral and 61mi off of Ponce Inlet. Ophelia is located about 85mi offshore. If she drifts cloers though she could pull in more warm water from the GS.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: disneyfanfl]
      #54162 - Wed Sep 07 2005 11:04 PM

From the latest recon:

"EYEWALL IRREGULAR IN SHAPE AND THICKNESS, 80 PERCENT COVERAGE"

It's getting organized! Just 3 hours ago recon didn't report an eye (though it could be seen forming on radar).

http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/text/tropical/atlantic/URNT12.KNHC


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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: MikeC]
      #54164 - Wed Sep 07 2005 11:56 PM

Looks like some interesting going's on with Ophelia.

I do notice that the eye has sort of re-organized and is now further west than before, atleast via the Melbourne Radar.

Who knows what this storm is going to do!

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nothing much to add [Re: wulrich]
      #54169 - Thu Sep 08 2005 01:01 AM

ophelia isn't quite as strong as i'd guessed it would be, and isn't quite as far to the west either. shouldn't affect the idea of an anticyclonic loop off northeast florida over the weekend. i think it'll go further east than the official, but nothing nutty like the long eastward jaunt the GFS is advertising... it's over-recurvature bias has taken over again. i'm not very sure what will come back to the coast next week. it may still be an off-balance, modest tropical storm, or maybe it'll go jeanne on us under the ridge. the window for its return i'll leave between daytona and charleston.. the big empty quarter that strong hurricanes have generally avoided in the last century (although further back in time this was not the case).
don't see a whole lot going on elsewhere. nate and maria are going out.. nate is going wide of bermuda. wave in the central caribbean is now hard to identify, and shouldn't perk up for days. mess in the gulf is going to be onshore before it can do anything. the big/sharp upper trough that was near 50w has split, with an upper low moving westward near 55w. still pretty much guarantees it'll chop up waves coming in from the east... that big envelope wave near 40w looks to be first to go. the new wave off africa is low latitude and has little model support. lots of dry saharan air down there, keeping the deep tropics relatively stable for now. GFS shows it getting a little livelier late next week. will see.
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Re: nothing much to add [Re: HanKFranK]
      #54170 - Thu Sep 08 2005 01:32 AM

Wow, the cone of uncertainty is a circle.
Is this unusual for a tropical storm to just sit and spin?
I have not followed these storms for that long. Is this rare or just uncommon?

I am glad is not closer to the coast or stronger. A slow moving storm can be bad, but one that does not move at all


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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: MikeC]
      #54171 - Thu Sep 08 2005 03:26 AM

just lookin at melb. radar it has moved wsw in the last hour or so. getting better organized.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: meto]
      #54173 - Thu Sep 08 2005 04:23 AM

meto...get some sleep,,, your seeing wobbles.

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Uncertainty [Re: MikeC]
      #54174 - Thu Sep 08 2005 05:29 AM

Now this is different??? I am confused. The NHC has Ophelia meandering just off of the coast of North Florida for the next several days. I was surfing the net and checking out the Accuweather site. They offer a completely different path. Check this out:

http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-st...0&article=7

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: scottsvb]
      #54175 - Thu Sep 08 2005 06:09 AM

Radar is now showing a SSE movement over the last hour.

On a storm this stationary, every little wobble is an overall movement for the hour. This thing isn't doing anything useful...

*returns to glueing his eyes to the radar screen*


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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: Random Chaos]
      #54176 - Thu Sep 08 2005 06:12 AM

Is that blob in the BOC anything that I should keep a close eye on ?

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Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast [Re: Random Chaos]
      #54177 - Thu Sep 08 2005 06:15 AM

I thought I saw that too. It amazes me to see where this thing is and they lifted our warnings and watches, (we're south of cocoa beach). I hope they're right but sending the kids to school makes me nervous.

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