Morning All,
Not too sure if this is the proper place to post this ... It does contain the most recent threads, and, since Barry is no longer tropical, I didn't think that the "Tropical Storm Barry" forum was a good place, either.
Perhaps we need to start a new thread (forum?) for extra-tropical 'Barry'. Feel free to move this posting if you do so.
Now then ...
I'm checking out the satellite and doppler loops for ex-Barry, and I'm noticing something rather curious.
It would appear that there is a smaller circulation center that's been rotating through SE Georgia, now just exiting into the Atlantic, near the Georgia/South Carolina border, that appears to be embedded within the much larger overall circulation of the now extratropical Barry remnent. (Please view the attached satellite photo.)
I remember reading in these forums a day or two ago that a "piece of energy" might get 'left behind' as the overall, larger circulation accelerates off towards New England.
Question: Could this bit of 'vorticity' break away when ex-Barry pulls away, and languish over the Gulf stream for possible (sub?)-tropical development down the road.
Or, am I just noticing the ''inner sanctum" of the overall extratropical circulation that will eventually 'wrap' more towards the center, instead of it currently being *distinctly* in the SW quadrant of the overall much larger circulation.
I'd be interested in hearing from our forum meteorologists what their take is on this little 'will-o-the-wisp' of a 'circulation center'. Is this common with freshly transitioned systems when they acquire non-tropical characteristics?
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