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To: clintonh8r

Hanna is swirling and twirling for now. Give it a couple of days to sort things out.


949 posted on 08/30/2008 3:51:24 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Sarah Barracuda!)
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She's really ticking me off. At present, its looking like she's going to stall near the Turk Islands from Sunday night midnight to about early Thursday morning.

The issue that's holding her up is models are forecasting a backing ridge falling in behind Gustov (stretching out from high pressure centralized in the Great Lakes region. In conjuction with this is a mid-Atlantic high about 70W, 30N that seems to be positioned fairly solidly. The backing ridge will hold up Hanna from moving west, and the mid-atlantic high will dictate her N component of motion.

I also noticed that the 1000-5000 THK [576] isopleth appears to be in play with respect to her motion. While its lattitudinally parallel, she's stagnant, but when it inclines SE-NW she begins to move.

Right now, once the backing ridge weakens, she'll begin to move NW. Presently its lookin' like Miami to Titusville will be spared most of the carnage. It looks like she may take a track just north of the Bahama Island chain.

Valid 08090500z:

Darkest streamlines are about 50kts.

Projected wave heights:

Darkest red shades zone >35'.

By 08090512z:

Darkest red zone >28' (<35').

997 posted on 08/30/2008 4:18:43 PM PDT by raygun
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