Tagged by NHC, CMC & GFS fire it up Sunday
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JAC on 8/8/2009, 7:15 pm

TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 205 PM EDT SAT AUG 08 2009
...TROPICAL WAVES...
A TROPICAL WAVE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE SURFACE ANALYSIS AT 08/1200 UTC OVER THE FAR E ATLC. THIS TROPICAL WAVE IS ALONG 15W/16W S OF 16N MOVING W 10-15 KT. RECENT VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES A WELL-DEFINED LOW/MID-LEVEL CYCLONIC CIRCULATION CENTER ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WAVE NEAR 11N16W. TIME-HEIGHT ANALYSES FROM BAMAKO IN MALI INDICATE THAT THE DIRECTION OF THE FLOW BELOW 550 MB SHIFTED FROM NORTHEASTERLY TO SOUTHEASTERLY BETWEEN 07/1200 UTC AND 07/1800 UTC...SUGGESTING WAVE PASSAGE AT BAMAKO DURING THIS TIME. SUNY ALBANY GFS ANALYSES DEPICT THE LOW-LEVEL VORTICITY MAXIMUM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WAVE TRACKING WESTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AFRICA DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS. THE 5-DAY HOVMOLLER DIAGRAM FOR SATELLITE IMAGERY ALSO INDICATES AN AREA OF ENHANCED CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAVE TRACKING WESTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AFRICA DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS. A BAND OF NUMEROUS MODERATE/ISOLATED STRONG CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WAVE IS WITHIN 90 NM EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 11N15W TO 10N17W TO 10N21W.


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Best Wave off the Year coming off the African Coast -
JAC,
8/7/2009, 7:25 am- along way down the road with the gfs - gi_metro13w, 8/9/2009, 8:40 am
- Tagged by NHC, CMC & GFS fire it up Sunday - JAC, 8/8/2009, 7:15 pm
- Convection over water poofed, but another big MCS coming up - JAC, 8/7/2009, 6:47 pm
- CMC shows the wave making it across and anti-cyclone breaking the Walker Cell - JAC, 8/7/2009, 11:33 am
- Firing Up in the Water - Classic Inverted V - JAC, 8/7/2009, 9:10 am
- 11N 22W - JAC, 8/7/2009, 8:01 am
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