Monday, November 7, 2011

Why not Sean?

Satellite pics continue to show an area of low pressure east of Florida getting better organized. NHC is giving it a 70% chance of becoming a "sub-tropical" storm tomorrow. Since it has been drifting over 80+ degree water temps, it sure looks to be gaining a tropical appearance tonight. NHC quickly named several minor swirls earlier in this hurricane season and one wonders why they are taking their time with this. I guess since computer models forecast it to remain east of the U.S., NHC is not going to send out a recon to see if it really is tropical or not. Whatever, give it a look and tell me what you think. Sure looks like T.S. Sean to me.

In the short term, Tuesday will again be warm and spring-like before a strong cold front arrives Wednesday morning. Hopefully this front will bring us some much needed rainfall. It has brought some severe storms to Oklahoma today but SPC does not expect any severe storms in our part of Louisiana or Mississippi. Behind the front it's much colder air bringing back sweaters and jackets.

1 comment:

MarkS said...

They's now calling it "Subtropical storm Sean". I didn't know they named Subtropical systems, especially with the same list of names they used for the season's tropical storms. Is this something new?