Man-o-man is right.
Ike is pulling moisture from a thousand miles out in the Pacific, and a thousand miles out in the Atlantic.
The core is already as wet as it gets, with more on the way, and the backside is puling down polar air from Canada.
Give this a day to organize, and the cold front could put down a LOT of tornadoes. Everyone south of the center of circulation and out front of the developuing cold front is potentially at risk from severe weather.
Midwest and Mississippi Valley Sunday, east coast Monday.
It is sort of like a giant conveyor belt for moisture right now.
We will probably have some bad flodding in the Midwest at the same time they deal with Ike down south.
“The core is already as wet as it gets, with more on the way, and the backside is puling down polar air from Canada.
“Give this a day to organize, and the cold front could put down a LOT of tornadoes. Everyone south of the center of circulation and out front of the developuing cold front is potentially at risk from severe weather.”
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I’ve made fun of the GFDL model a few times the way it reconstituted Ike as a Hurricane Cat.2 over Chicago/ Detroit in several runs two days ago ((notice EVERYONE- that ‘s NOT going to happen - it is JUST A MODEL not a forecast - even if it is “the best” model)).
After studying the way Ike is affecting nearly an eighth of the surface of the globe, maybe GFDL had a good point in being as concerned as it was. The one thing I can’t figure out about it, though, (and couldn’t when I first noticed that run) was where the heck it thought it could snarf up the energy Ike would need to maintain the power over so much land??? {{shrug}} Models get a life of their own and it is extremely difficult to figure out why the results pop out sometimes.
The photo you linked in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2081430/posts?page=1018#1018 is really remarkable and I hope most people check it out. It really gives insight as to the power of this storm.
Actually - it would be nice if someone could put a copy of it on a server somewhere so it doesn’t get changed and can be referenced for a while. The photo as linked changes every 15 minutes or so.