Invests 95L & 96L Both Close To U.S. Both Rapidly Improving Today, Likely US Impacts

[cieldumort]

Two well-developed features in the western Atlantic are rapidly improving today, and one of them, also the one closest to shore: Invest 95L, may already be a tropical cyclone as of this post.

Extremely well-developed Invest 95L south of La.

Comments

[brianthedog]

Not good, especially since Alex was able to interfere with cleanup efforts from hundreds of miles away.

[cieldumort]

I know. Of all the years - and times of year - for this oil spill to happen. More proof that BP is just damned.

[juliannamkh]

I'm keeping my eye on both. 95L is basically what broke off the "tail" of Alex, no?

[cieldumort]

Broke off, but not from Alex. 95L was a tail low that formed on the southwest end of a front that sagged down and stalled over the NE GOM. The low slowly broke free of its front - imho it has sufficiently done so now - and indeed seems to be an incipient TC at this time.

95L actually looks really impressive on satellite - still not so much at the surface (it's simply not a deep cyclone.. and even now may not get classified as a TC, as such)

[juliannamkh]

Ah, thanks! I'm in Alabama. That was the front that slowly moved over us last week I believe. We got some impressive thunderstorms.

TC or not, if it cuts up it's pretty close to the spill site and will cause problems, I'm sure.

[cieldumort]

No doubt about it!

[floundah]

I don't like the looks of this at all.

[cieldumort]

Pretty impressive for early July.

[floundah]

An especially bad year for a potentially active season.

[cieldumort]

yep :)