Anyone else struggling to find a silver lining? The scenarios:
Posted by Gambit7 on 9/5/2017, 3:18 pm
Sitting here staring at all of the variables, and at this point the BEST thing that could happen is a brush with Cuba?

But let's analyze this; an annular system over the low-lying canefields of Cuba for 12 hours that sits near stationary over the straights?  I laugh at folk that think this is good.  If anything, it's bad.  Many models have the storm deepening 20+ mb during this time and Cuba wont take much of a chunk out of an annular storm.  If the storm widens and spreads its energy then maybe she'll dip into cat4 before striking the mainland; but then other variable come into play like surge and rain.

West coast vs. east coast vs spine of florida?  ALL of these are bad.  A Tampa Bay storm moving north?  Look up the models for this scenario and your spine will tingle.  An inland peninsular spine storm?  Wipes out Florida's famous suburban megalopolis.   A Sobe coast north storm?  Destroys the bread and butter of the state.  Maybe a naples landfall is the best option here, but who knows what the storm's shape will be then.

Right now the storm's structure is such that it's holding the distinct comma-tail shape.  Superimpose this over the state and you see how fruitless these track arguments are (for instance, a peninsular track bring the strong part of the CDO right over inland lauderdale/miami/wpb.  e.g. all these tracks arel bad.  

The best scenario is some sort of structural breakdown of the system right in the nick of time?  Maybe become more of a spread out Wilma storm?  We shall see... but the forecast in the straights doesn't support this notion.  She will wind up before the approach no matter what.
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