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LoisCane
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Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean
Wed Jul 10 2013 03:04 PM

Wrote a long post today about the pluses and minuses of Chantal's very existence and future. If you make a spreadsheet of pros and cons logically it should never have gotten this far nor should it still be there firing up this morning on the floater as if it is sending up red flares for the NHC to find it. Easily found..go figure.

Positives
1) Her tenancity of existing and making it across the ocean in Early July from an early CV wave which is usually one that "wets up the atmosphere for future waves" and nothing more. Upgraded in the Atlantic and still there in the Eastern Caribbean the "graveyard of storms" and not dying is her main positive point in her favor.

Negatives
1) Extremely fast forward speed. When was the last time a storm didn't go less than 25 MPH forward speed ever? And, last night it was trucking at 30 mph forward speed...which is more than many naysayers feel her winds were last night.

2) Shear...always there...that's why we call it the "graveyard of storms"

3) SAL and dry air she developed in and has been traveling with for days.

4) CLIMO

Any balance sheet would easily say she should not be there at all ....and yet she is..

Recon found enough data to keep her as a weak Tropical Storm with a cone that continues to call South Florida's name and yet...she is moving west still very rapidly. A very complicated storm to work with and model output isn't always helpful and the NHC is doing the best it can and that's pretty good in my opinion with this storm. LOCATION...16.5N 72.0W
ABOUT 335 MI...535 KM ESE OF KINGSTON JAMAICA
ABOUT 145 MI...235 KM S OF PORT AU PRINCE HAITI
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...45 MPH...75 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 280 DEGREES AT 29 MPH...46 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1011 MB...29.85 INCHES

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/145859.shtml?5day#contents

Worth noting the mets in NC have been saying we would see moisture from Chantal all morning..seems they buy into that general forecast cone.

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Watching two Low Chance Areas	MikeC	Wed Jul 10 2013 03:04 PM
Re: INVEST 97L and area near the Bahamas.	danielw	Wed Jul 17 2013 07:13 AM
INVEST 97L and area near the Bahamas.	danielw	Tue Jul 16 2013 07:28 PM
Re: Watching two Low Chance Areas	doug	Sat Jul 13 2013 01:22 PM
Re: Remnants of Chantal	doug	Fri Jul 12 2013 11:33 AM
Re: Remnants of Chantal	berrywr	Fri Jul 12 2013 02:35 AM
Re: Remnants of Chantal	MikeC	Thu Jul 11 2013 09:52 PM
Re: Remnants of Chantal	Ed Dunham	Thu Jul 11 2013 05:07 PM
Re: Remnants of Chantal	Lamar-Plant City	Thu Jul 11 2013 02:33 PM
Remnants of Chantal	Ed Dunham	Thu Jul 11 2013 02:21 PM
chantel north of hispanola	Robert	Thu Jul 11 2013 03:58 AM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	ftlaudbob	Wed Jul 10 2013 08:37 PM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	berrywr	Wed Jul 10 2013 08:28 PM
Re: Chantal Barely a Storm in the Caribbean	berrywr	Wed Jul 10 2013 08:09 PM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	ftlaudbob	Wed Jul 10 2013 05:55 PM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	LoisCane	Wed Jul 10 2013 03:04 PM
Re: Chantal Barely a Storm in the Caribbean	Ed Dunham	Wed Jul 10 2013 02:32 PM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	OrlandoDan	Wed Jul 10 2013 09:41 AM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	typhoon_tip	Wed Jul 10 2013 06:02 AM
Re: Chantal In the Eastern Caribbean	cieldumort	Wed Jul 10 2013 05:51 AM
Re: Chantal Moves Into the Caribbean Sea	typhoon_tip	Wed Jul 10 2013 05:26 AM
Re: Chantal Moves Into the Caribbean Sea	berrywr	Wed Jul 10 2013 03:33 AM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	scottsvb	Wed Jul 10 2013 01:20 AM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	typhoon_tip	Tue Jul 09 2013 05:31 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Into the Caribbean Sea	Ed Dunham	Tue Jul 09 2013 05:08 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	danielw	Tue Jul 09 2013 03:07 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	Hawkeyewx	Tue Jul 09 2013 01:44 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	MikeC	Tue Jul 09 2013 01:42 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	MikeC	Tue Jul 09 2013 01:33 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	danielw	Tue Jul 09 2013 01:32 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	danielw	Tue Jul 09 2013 12:52 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	danielw	Tue Jul 09 2013 12:33 PM
Re: Chantal Moves Toward the Caribbean	LoisCane	Tue Jul 09 2013 03:37 AM

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