Noel set to blast up the eastern seaboard. Meanwhile, back in the Carib...

[cieldumort]

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[cieldumort]

You're going fishing if Noel isn't? ;)

[team_ragnarok]

I saw that swirl too, it might be something becoming cut off from Noel's associated surface trough/developing cold front. The 12Z discussion and surface analysis didn't mention anything here, but the 18Z package should be more interesting..

[cieldumort]

That was my read of it, also.

-2PM TWD-

CARIBBEAN SEA...
A TRAILING SFC TROUGH FROM NOEL IS KEEPING ACTIVE WEATHER OVER
THE CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF THE WRN CARIBBEAN. LIGHTNING DATA IS
DEPICTING NUMEROUS TSTMS OFFSHORE NICARAGUA FROM 12N-16N BETWEEN
78W-82W. A CLUSTER OF MODERATE CONVECTION IS ALSO NOTED IN THE
GULF OF HONDURAS S OF 17N BETWEEN 85W-88W...WITH ONSHORE NLY
FLOW. THE TROUGHING IS ALSO GENERATING SCATTERED TSTMS OVER THE
COASTAL WATERS OF ERN CUBA...JAMAICA..AND HAITI. SCATTERED
SHOWERS ARE ELSEWHERE BETWEEN 71W-83W. SOME OF THE GLOBAL MODELS
ARE DEVELOPING A WEAK SFC LOW S OF JAMAICA OVER THE WEEKEND AND
DRIFTING IT S/SW...ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGHING S OF NOEL.
THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE SOME ENHANCED LOW LEVEL VORTICITY IN
THIS REGION SO WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR THIS OVER THE NEXT FEW
MAPS.

[floundah]

It's clouding over here:

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/EVENTS/EG64.JPG

::drool::

[cieldumort]

Noel is such a photogenic storm right now

Re: ::drool::

[floundah]

No kidding. You should have seen the clouds from where I was. The outer bands were stunning, then they got lit up by a magnificent sunset. The undersides of the cloud bands went from gold to an incredibly vivid glowing orange-magenta. Their undersides also had the most even wave-like shapes all across the sky. The bands would point sort of this way: | , whereas the waves pointed roughly this way: -- . Wish you could have seen it.

I need a camera!

Re: ::drool::

[cieldumort]

Hopefully some Weather Warriors snapped a few off and send them in to TWC. :)