97L gets disrupted by Hispaniola
A tropical wave (Invest 97L) near the north coast of Hispaniola has been disrupted by interaction with the island, plus the effects of moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots. The storm is no longer a threat to develop into a tropical depression today, and the Hurricane Hunter flight that was scheduled for today has been postponed until Thursday. The disturbance has brought heavy rains of 8+ inches to Culebra, Vieques, the Virgin Islands, and some of the northern Lesser Antilles Islands. Wunderblogger Weather456 reported that the power was knocked out on the island of St. Kitts for about 24 hours, due to the intense lightning associated with 97L. All of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are under flash flood watches today.
Satellite images of 97L show a relatively meager number of heavy thunderstorms that are not well-organized. The curved bands to the north and east of the center have disappeared, and there is no evidence of low-level spiral banding or of a surface circulation. Surface observations over the northern Dominican Republic show only light winds, with no westerly winds indicating that a surface circulation is forming. Long-range radar loops from San Juan show a much reduced amount of thunderstorm activity.
Figure 1. Total radar-estimate rainfall for 97L.
Track Forecast for 97L
The storm is in a fairly straightforward steering current environment, and 97L should progress steadily to the west-northwest through Saturday. The rains from 97L's thunderstorms will bring the threat of isolated flooding to the Dominican Republic today, and to Haiti on today and Thursday. Heavy rains from 97L will affect eastern Cuba, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the eastern Bahamas Thursday, and South and Central Florida can expect heavy rains to arrive Thursday night or Friday morning. The latest suite of model runs from 2am EDT this morning (6Z) foresee 97L making landfall on the Florida coast somewhere between Miami and Cape Canaveral on Friday, then continuing into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Only the Canadian model foresees a threat to Texas, and the other models predict a second landfall between eastern Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle.
Intensity Forecast for 97L
The primary detriment to development of 97L today will be its close proximity to the landmass of Hispaniola. Once the storm pulls away from the island tonight, 97L has a better chance of development. Also hindering development over the next two days will be the presence of dry, stable air in its path over the Bahamas, thanks to the upper-level low to the north of the Dominican Republic. The SHIPS model predicts shear will stay in the moderate range, 10 - 20 knots, over the next three days, which should allow for some steady development of 97L on Thursday and Friday before it reaches Florida. NHC is giving 97L a 60% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Friday, which is a reasonable forecast. I think there is a 70% chance 97L will eventually become Tropical Storm Bonnie, sometime in the next five days. Sudden rapid development before 97L reaches Florida is unlikely, due to the storm's current state of disorganization and the dry air over the Bahamas. It's very unlikely that 97L has time to organize into a hurricane before hitting Florida. I put the odds of 97L making it to hurricane strength before reaching Florida at 5%, and I give a 20% chance it will be a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The probability of 97L being a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico will depend heavily upon how long the storm spends over water in the Gulf, which is very uncertain. The environment in the Gulf of Mexico should be favorable for intensification, if passage over Florida does not disrupt the storm too much.
I'll have a new post Thursday morning, or earlier if there's a major change to 97L.
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MAybe we can get him to use it to mop up the oil spill!! LOL!!!
My hero!
I call it condensation.. roughly 940btu per lb.
Going out to mow the lawn shortly. Will report back on my findings.
TX LA
I was varwy Quiets too.
Planting my snickers bars around the lawn and will report back tomorrow....
TIME (HR) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120
V (KT) NO LAND 30 31 32 34 36 40 45 47 50 51 54 56 58
V (KT) LAND 30 31 32 34 36 40 45 45 48 49 44 34 29
V (KT) LGE mod 30 30 31 31 32 34 37 39 42 46 44 33 29
SHEAR (KT) 21 19 16 15 17 13 20 14 19 13 16 17 6
SHEAR ADJ (KT) -2 3 5 -3 -2 -1 0 4 -1 1 -1 1 -1
SHEAR DIR 250 227 223 178 172 139 121 127 139 220 186 231 232
SST (C) 29.1 29.2 29.4 29.4 29.4 29.7 29.9 29.6 29.6 29.5 29.8 29.2 27.6
POT. INT. (KT) 154 155 159 159 159 165 169 163 163 161 165 154 130
ADJ. POT. INT. 144 144 148 148 148 152 155 149 146 141 142 130 109
200 MB T (C) -52.8 -52.7 -53.1 -53.3 -52.9 -52.4 -52.4 -52.2 -52.1 -51.9 -52.1 -52.1 -52.7
TH_E DEV (C) 10 10 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 12 9 12
700-500 MB RH 64 63 60 59 57 49 51 44 49 48 54 52 55
GFS VTEX (KT) 10 12 10 10 10 8 8 5 5 2 1 LOST LOST
850 MB ENV VOR 34 44 38 38 41 16 6 -29 -39 -77 -53 -70 -18
200 MB DIV 56 58 6 5 -1 -25 2 15 18 8 -18 16 8
LAND (KM) 166 189 190 181 199 200 4 96 235 142 -27 -116 -240
LAT (DEG N) 21.3 21.6 21.9 22.4 22.9 24.0 25.2 26.4 27.6 28.7 29.8 30.8 31.9
LONG(DEG W) 71.4 72.5 73.6 74.7 75.8 78.1 80.6 83.2 85.7 87.9 89.9 91.3 92.5
STM SPEED (KT) 12 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 12 11 9 8 7
HEAT CONTENT 41 74 78 70 62 3 15 21 32 45 28 25 0
Thanks.
I suggest killing off any ant mounds close to your house before you get any kind of tropical weather. During Hurricane Erin back in 95 I had fire ants that were nested in a flower bed in my front yard move into the house through the front door due to the heavy rain and flooded yard. Didn't realize they were there because my carpet was a beige color and walked right into them near my front door bare foot. Never thought I'd get ate up by fire ants IN the house, learned a valuable lesson that day!
Dont know bout us..but the Pelicans and other wildlife aint been to pleased about it.
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how accurate is that one?
12z ECMWF 48-hour surface pressures (solid black contours) and 200mb winds (colored wind barbs):
Ok to humor everyone (not that I go with the ant theory) We have had lots of rain this year, so ants yes, new mounds yes. Poison is in order, cuz I am tired of stepping on the little boogers and having them bite. Oh yes they are fire ants. With Katrina, yes there were ants. Reporting from SCentral MS. LOL! Have a good day.
Hi Levi!
this could just be another tease, but we are still way early in the season
keeps shear 15-20kts for the forecast period. Mean slow development at best.
It's bad enough that we will have the Media Hyped Hoop-De-Doo! 5 year Anniversary of Katrina on the 27th..
Lets not doomcast 97L into K when she'll be a Bonnie Lass...
S'il Vous Plait!
When u see them Packing up and leaving the Dog..and calling a Cab..
One best get a move one.
Hey :)
Hard to argue against the ECMWF.
It never did much w/97L.
If the ants start moving rapidly in a swirl pattern, that means you just ran over them with the lawnmower. Back the mower off about 10 feet and watch to see which way they migrate. If they stagger around in random directions, drink a beer while waiting for them to get their bearings.
It's funny that they can sense a storm coming, but not the lawnmowers immanent arrival.
That is one evil ULL (at least for 97L). Rain will do here. I really don't need 40mph gusts with it.
What is the story with these?
And 5 years isnt along time post calamity for many.
So we can Bally Hoo our Losses, some very personal in our own way.
Can't see how, unless mother nature has a brain and is mad about all the problems we caused...
Way early in the season?
Its July 20th.
I know all of the attention is on 97L as it should be, but I wanted to get your thoughts on the wave in the Eastern Carribean well SE of Puerto Rico. The convection continues to flare up with that system. Have you had a chance to analyze that wave?
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