Tropical wave over Africa
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 9/3/2014, 9:24 pm
NHC gives it a 10% chance in 48 hours (which was just increased from 0%) and 30% chance within 5 days as of 8pm EDT on Wednesday. It doesn't move off Africa until tomorrow:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5
I wanted to mention it because NASA is planning to investigate this area with the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle on Friday with a 25 hour flight from Virginia. That should provide some interesting research in an area we obviously don't normally see recon. (The Global Hawk has done a mission like this in the past few years.)
Global Hawk daily schedule:
https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/daily-schedule
P27L, this area's current designation: http://www.met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/storms2014.html
Satellite:
HS27L on this site: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/PRODUCTS/MPE/index.htm
"TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2014
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa
tomorrow. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for
some development of this system through early next week while it
moves westward at about 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...30 percent.
Forecaster Brennan" |
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