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Saturday Morning Update
Tropical Storm Odette has intensified during the night and is now on the move to the northeast to north northeast. Odette has sustained winds of 55 knots and a forward speed of 12 knots as she heads for landfall on the south shore of the Dominican Republic Saturday evening.
Santiago, DR link:
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/MDST.html
Extensive convection east through southeast of the center will bring heavy rain and wind over the DR and Puerto Rico for the next 18 hours as the system gains forward speed. Flash floods are likely on these islands. Odette should weaken considerably over the high terrain of the DR tonight and reorganize as she moves north of Puerto Rico on Sunday - becoming late Sunday into Monday as she zips off to the northeast into the open Atlantic and (finally?) brings and end to this long season.
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Apologies for the lack of updates lately, with my new job I've had little time for the site. In any case, we've got an oddball post season storm, Odette. Formed in Decemember, complimenting an April storm earlier in the year, also out of season. With Isabel being the biggest event for the US.
It most likely will cause heavy rains and mudslides over Hispaniola, and I'll try to watch it as it moves northward.
NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division Forecast Track of Active Systems (Good Forecast Track Graphic and Satellite Photos)
More discussion on the storm on our Storm Forum.
NASA GHCC Interactive Satellite images at:
North Atlantic Visible (Daytime Only), Infrared, Water Vapor
Some forecast models:
NGM, AVN, MRF, ETA ECMWF
DoD Weather Models (NOGAPS, AVN, MRF)
AVN, , , , , UKMET
Multi-model plots from WREL
Other commentary at Mike Anderson's East Coast Tropical Weather Center, Robert Lightbown/Crown Weather Tropical Update Accuweather's Joe Bastardi (now subcriber only unfortunately), Cyclomax (Rich B.), Hurricane City , mpittweather , Tropical Weather Watchers.Com (JasonM) Gary Gray's Millennium Weather, Barometer Bob's Hurricane Hollow, Snonut,
Even more on the links page.
- [mike@flhurricane.com]
Edited by Ed Dunham (Sat Dec 06 2003 08:17 AM)
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LI Phil
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Maybe now the will consider starting the season earlier and ending it later...not. They should fix the at least. It ended 11/30. 
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k___g
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Quite the surprise ending to this 'odd' season...Happy Holidays to each of you...see ya in 2004!!!!
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HanKFranK
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every season is an 'odd' season, it will have its defining features. this one is perhaps a little 'odder' than usual as a whole, but mid-season wasn't that abnormal. except maybe for the duration of fabian and isabel. the april and december storms, and the level of activity into mid july were abnormal.
the real anomaly i'm always looking at is how much activity we've had over the last.. well, almost decade.. and how little in the way of severe hurricane activity. climatologically speaking things have been VERY odd.
well, 15 named storms again. olga in 2001, odette in 2003. neutral this year, too.. makes you wonder how damped the effect of is in this multi-decadal upswing. hmm.. speaking of that, gray should be releasing his seasonal forecast later on this fifth of december. wonder if odette will make headlines there?
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Cycloneye posted Grey's report in the Storm Forum for anyone who's interested...
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Ed Dunham
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For the few remaining tropical system diehards (like me), just a note that an update on Odette has been posted in the Storm Forum.
Saturday AM: Main Page has been updated.
Cheers,
ED
Edited by Ed Dunham (Sat Dec 06 2003 08:19 AM)
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Preseason storm Anna and postseason storm Odette. Weird year.
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HanKFranK
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looks as if odette has chosen the long crossing of the island.. not lengthwise, but over the mountainous barahona peninsula prior to crossing the central massif in the dominican republic. often the death knell for weak mid-season systems, but since odette is out of season i doubt it will deliver a crushing blow. odette is not your average joe (or josephine) storm.
away to the east a complex low is cutting off in the central atlantic.. it should dive to below 25N, but well away near 40W. it is rare, but that sort of setup is what one would typically look for, as most late/post season systems tend to have non-tropical origins. a late season storm will occasionally originate out there, though i think odette has met and exceeded our december quota for the next few years. odette is the first system of purely tropical origin to form in december in quite some time.
something that did strike me is the record from the year 1887. a hurricane formed that year east of the bahamas at the end of november.. then succesively to its east another hurricane and a tropical storm formed just east of the caribbean islands. that was THREE active systems in a chain, extending out of season. not sure what kind of rare weather configuration allowed for that, but just knowing it will keep me looking for the next week or so to see if odette causes a secondary.
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HanKFranK
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that cutoff low has dived to near 21/38.. and has a convective core. it's moving over support SSTs (especially for a hybrid system) and has occluded well away from whatever frontal structure it may have had. on the 1pm est twd the should have something to say about this besides 'gale center'.. it's deep in the tropics.
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LI Phil
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Will the season ever end?
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Edited by Ed Dunham (Mon Dec 08 2003 07:56 PM)
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HanKFranK
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down near 19/38 now. deep in the tropics now. the convective core within the larger circulation will probably make a cycloidal loop.. apparently the low is filling in spite of maintaining organization. twd now describing the gale center as a subtropical low.. even if advisories don't come it may be post-analyzed as a subtropical cyclone. ssd has it as a d2.5(s.t.). monterrey has a 40kt gale. i don't expect that it will get much better organized.. it's an island of activity in a sea of hostility. if doesn't call it soon it probably won't ever.
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LoisCane
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is that from a song or is that your own creation... beautiful, almost inspirational, love it
"it's an island of activity in a sea of hostility"
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HanKFranK
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poetic.. i wouldn't say that. real estate friendly to tropical systems is hard to come by in december. take a look at it on b/w water vapor.. it's a spot of white in a very deep black field, with a subtropical jet to the east. by the way it actually DOES look better organized with time, have a feeling the will make have to make mention of this during the day tuesday. looks about as healthy is ana did back in april.. and it's not over sixty degree waters either. i'm going to say it just because somebody needs to--peter.
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Ed Dunham
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Right you are HF - it deserves to be noted. Looks very tropical this morning with good banding and convection. still carries it at 40kts and 1004mb. AVN/GFS and weaken the system while slowly moving it westward. If it were May it would be a subtropical storm - its worthy of that, but I'd be surprised if its classified this late in the season given its location.
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LoisCane
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P P can someone update this board 
hello...when was the last time there was a P
come on...tell me
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Bobbi:
1995-made it to Tanya
Hard to believe there have been 2 December storms (and 1 in April).
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LI Phil
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Brad, you beat me to it. 1995 had PABLO, ROXANNE, SEBASTIEN and TANYA. WOW! So it's rare, but it's not unprecedented. BTW, Tanya formed in late OCTOBER!
Check it out - 1995
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HanKFranK
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still astronomical fall, but we're now in early winter climatologically--and that's two. that old 13-7-3 call for the season is now fairly well trashed.. unless you cut off the out of season storms... but they count too. think i'll call it a little differently than (peter that is).. first off i might have called it a subtropical storm.. this is one of those clear instances where there isn't much deep convection and the origin is obviously non-tropical.. in spite of the low latitude. it shouldn't decay quite as models predict, but do a modest amount of strengthening inside of it's protective bubble (formed inside an upper trough.. usually not a very safe place, but about the only place possible this time of year). think peter will move nnw today, bending nne with time.. initially slow but accelerating drastically. it will be moving with the general upper flow but not running into one of those strong jets in the short term. SSTs will fall off well below what would normally support a tropical system.. but as the storm is hybrid it shouldn't matter a great deal. peter will probably shear out thursday or friday.. models have another deep layer low originating near 30/30 by the weekend (water there is significantly colder, so doubtful this one could occlude and incubate another tropical system), which will probably entrain peter and possibly odette's frontal energy which is migrating to the same general location. should make an impressive ocean storm if nothing else.
okay now, after this one we've GOT to sign off for the season. this time there REALLY shouldn't be another.
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Check out this Visible of Peter: Looks like a CAT 3, even tho it's only a TS.
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nhc just issued a noon advisory: storm is developing an eye feature... stronger than earlier assumed. intensity was adjusted to 60kt/990mb. say they may upgrade to a hurricane later.
looks like they jumped on the bandwagon a little late. it was a subtropical storm yesterday.. but i guess that's for post-analysis now.
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