| They have been talking about this one since 8pm EDT on Monday. "TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT THU SEP 18 2014 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Edouard, located about 900 miles west of the western Azores. 1. A tropical wave, accompanied by a broad low pressure system, is located just off of the west coast of Africa. Although shower and thunderstorm activity remains disorganized, environmental conditions are expected to be at least marginally conducive for some gradual development of this system over the next several days while it moves slowly west-northwestward to northwestward over the far eastern tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. Forecaster Stewart" http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5 Models: http://www.hurricanecity.com/models/data.cgi?basin=al&year=2014&storm=95&latestinvest=1&display=googlemap&latestrun=1 Copying satellite data form a previous Africa post... Satellite: It's probably not on here yet: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_meteosat.asp?data_folder=tropical/tropical_met_4km_ir4_floater&width=640&height=480&number_of_images_to_display=12 From: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/tropical.asp On the site that tracks pouches ( http://www.met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/storms2014.html ) there is something ahead of 95L on it. But 95L might be just entering the frame. Or perhaps it will all be one something in the end. Also from that site, wider African / East Atlantic views: Meteosat 14 km Visible / Infrared: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_meteosat.asp?data_folder=tropical/tropical_met_14km_visir2&width=640&height=480&number_of_images_to_display=24 Meteosat 14 km Water Vapor: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_meteosat.asp?data_folder=tropical/tropical_met_14km_wv&width=640&height=480&number_of_images_to_display=24 CIMSS: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/storm.php?&basin=atlantic&sname=95L&invest=YES&zoom=4&img=1&vars=11111000000000000000000&loop=0 From: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/ NRL IR: http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tcdat/tc14/ATL/95L.INVEST/ir/geo/1km/LATEST.jpg<-- Good shot of it as of posting this NRL Vis: http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tcdat/tc14/ATL/95L.INVEST/vis/geo/1km_zoom/LATEST.jpg From: http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/TC.html Another African satellite: http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/PRODUCTS/MPE/index.htm Tracked on this site as P36L / 95L: http://www.met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/storms2014/P36L.html From: http://www.met.nps.edu/~mtmontgo/storms2014.html |