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2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season

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The GFS is literally a piece of garbage. 400 mile swing within 96 hours of landfall.

Consensus is coming in for landfall between NOLA and Pensacola. If I had to peg a current location, I'd say Mississippi/Alabama Gulf Coast. Probably as a moderate to strong tropical storm.
 

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The GFS is literally a piece of garbage. 400 mile swing within 96 hours of landfall.

Consensus is coming in for landfall between NOLA and Pensacola. If I had to peg a current location, I'd say Mississippi/Alabama Gulf Coast. Probably as a moderate to strong tropical storm.

Sweet! I’m excited! It also looks like the tornado potential is going up on the models.
 

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Well we are loaded up on the Carnival Fantasy. Getting ready to sail at 4:30pm. I’m a fan of my new hurricane chasing vessel. Let you what we find enroute to Cozumel.
 

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Well we are loaded up on the Carnival Fantasy. Getting ready to sail at 4:30pm. I’m a fan of my new hurricane chasing vessel. Let you what we find enroute to Cozumel.


Have fun Wes and make sure you get great photos of Lightning, Water Spouts and any Rogue waves you may encounter. Just kidding. May you have smoothing sailing.
 

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GFS and ensembles are hitting the 2nd/3rd week of June real hard for the W. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. MJO will not be as cooperative so I'm a bit skeptical.
 

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Annnnnd we're off!

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Fri Jun 1 2018

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days.

Today marks the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, which
will run until November 30. Long-term averages for the number of
named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes are 12, 6, and 3,
respectively.

The list of names for 2018 is as follows:

Name Pronunciation Name Pronunciation
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Alberto al-BAIR-toe Leslie LEHZ-lee
Beryl BEHR-ril Michael MY-kuhl
Chris kris Nadine nay-DEEN
Debby DEH-bee Oscar AHS-kur
Ernesto er-NES-toh Patty PAT-ee
Florence FLOOR-ence Rafael rah-fah-ELL
Gordon GOR-duhn Sara SAIR-uh
Helene heh-LEEN Tony TOH-nee
Isaac EYE-zik Valerie VAH-lur-ee
Joyce joyss William WILL-yum
Kirk kurk

One named cyclone, Alberto, already formed this year in May. The
next named storm that forms this season will be called Beryl.

This product, the Tropical Weather Outlook, briefly describes
significant areas of disturbed weather and their potential for
tropical cyclone formation during the next five days. The
issuance times of this product are 2 AM, 8 AM, 2 PM, and
8 PM EDT. After the change to standard time in November, the
issuance times are 1 AM, 7 AM, 1 PM, and 7 PM EST.

A Special Tropical Weather Outlook will be issued to provide
updates, as necessary, in between the regularly scheduled
issuances of the Tropical Weather Outlook. Special Tropical
Weather Outlooks will be issued under the same WMO and AWIPS
headers as the regular Tropical Weather Outlooks.

A standard package of products, consisting of the tropical cyclone
public advisory, the forecast/advisory, the cyclone discussion,
and a wind speed probability product, is issued every six hours
for all ongoing tropical cyclones. In addition, a special
advisory package may be issued at any time to advise of
significant unexpected changes or to modify watches or warnings.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has the option to issue
advisories, watches, and warnings for disturbances that are not yet
a tropical cyclone, but which pose the threat of bringing tropical
storm or hurricane conditions to land areas within 48 hours. For
these land-threatening "potential tropical cyclones", NHC will issue
the full suite of advisory and watch/warning products. Potential
tropical cyclones share the naming conventions currently in
place for tropical depressions, being numbered from a single list
(e.g., "One", "Two", "Three", etc.).

The Tropical Cyclone Update is a brief statement to inform of
significant changes in a tropical cyclone, to post or cancel
watches or warnings, or to provide hourly position updates between
intermediate advisories when the storm center is easily followed
by radar. The Tropical Cyclone Update is also used in lieu of
or to precede the issuance of a special advisory package.
Tropical Cyclone Updates, which can be issued at any time, can
be found under WMO header WTNT61-65 KNHC, and under AWIPS header
MIATCUAT1-5.

All NHC text and graphical products are available on the web at
www.hurricanes.gov. More information NHC text products can be found
at www.hurricanes.govaboutnhcprod.shtml, while more information
about NHC graphical products can be found at
www.hurricanes.gov/aboutnhcgraphics.shtml.

You can also interact with NHC on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/NWSNHC. Notifications are available
via Twitter when select NHC products are issued. Information
about our Atlantic Twitter feed is available at
www.hurricanes.gov/twitter.shtml.

$$
Forecaster Cangialosi/HSU
NNNN
 

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My name is on deck for this year. Hoping its a drought busting rainmaker for someone and nothing more.
 

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Still have yet to have a Hurricane Cory/Corey/Kory/Korey. With "K" named systems being retired at a high rate, just maybe....

I'll never see my names again, David or Andrew. One was before my time and I was too young to remember the other.
 
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I'm surprised Alberto wasn't retired after the 1994 tropical storm, with 32 deaths and a considerable rainfall-related flood disaster over Georgia. It made landfall on the Florida panhandle not far from this year's subtropical iteration. Satellite picture shows it was well-organized and probably would have become a hurricane with a little more time over water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Alberto_(1994)
 

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I'm surprised Alberto wasn't retired after the 1994 tropical storm, with 32 deaths and a considerable rainfall-related flood disaster over Georgia. It made landfall on the Florida panhandle not far from this year's subtropical iteration. Satellite picture shows it was well-organized and probably would have become a hurricane with a little more time over water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Alberto_(1994)


I wonder what their criteria are for retiring a name. There were names used for Hurricanes that were later used again even after creating destruction. I think if you have a Major Hurricane that name needs to be retired.
 

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Part of why Alberto wasn’t retired in 1994 was people didn’t think to retire tropical storm names. Tropical Storm Allison was retired as being the original flood disaster for Houston in 2001.
 

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So this has been pretty consistent for a week now. Kind of fizzled out in weekend runs but came back in stronger for the last 24 hours.
 

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Atlantic SSTs are at record cool levels this year so far - that may indicate perhaps a suppressed hurricane season if it continues.

 
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