I don’t know what this is, but it’s HUGE!

I don’t know what this is, but it’s HUGE! I was looking at the NOAA and NRL web sites tracking hurricane Dorian.
I’ve noticed that the last 2 days this counter clockwise rotation has become a little more organized.
It's in the upper part of the frame in the middle. If you follow the link, you can watch a video of it spinning.
www.nrlmry.navy.mil.../atlantic/tropics/ir&ANIM_TYPE =Instant&DISPLAY=Single
The sea temp are around 83 degrees in that area www.nodc.noaa.gov...
and the wind maps show counter clock wise rotation at only 17 to 5 mph. www.windy.com...,-49.382,5,m:eRNafbW
Maybe it's just a very big low pressure system.
Has anyone ever seen anything this big before?
IF it turns into a hurricane, it may be the biggest I’ve ever seen!

a reply to: Violater1
www.nrlmry.navy.mil...
When you go here, the only button you need to push is "ANIMATE." Then INSTANT from the drop down menu.

Time to put out the lobster traps.

Perpendicular to Virginia? It does look cool and I know little about meteorology but as I understand it the water isn't warm enough in that part of the ocean to facillitate climate conditions necessary for a hurricane to form.

You talking about the low pressure center top row, 3rd block in from the right?

That was over the Hudson Bay region a few days ago, MI got a nice line of fast moving thunderstorms from the tail end of it when it moved east.


Edit: Whoops, my sense of continental scale is way off, that one that came through here went much, much further north. Had to check the stitched Atlantic map to be sure, but the one you're talking about is just a mid-Atlantic low. Not nearly organized enough to be an extratropical storm. It's like the difference between a low pressure system moving through the Midwest, and a Derecho moving through the Midwest.

originally posted by: Nyiah
You talking about the low pressure center top row, 3rd block in from the right?

That was over the Hudson Bay region a few days ago, MI got a nice line of fast moving thunderstorms from the tail end of it when it moved east.

Edit: Whoops, my sense of continental scale is way off, that one that came through here went much, much further north. Had to check the stitched Atlantic map to be sure, but the one you're talking about is just a mid-Atlantic low. Not nearly organized enough to be an extratropical storm. It's like the difference between a low pressure system moving through the Midwest, and a Derecho moving through the Midwest.

It's about 40W and 40N. When you watch the video it's very noticeable. I see what your saying about it being extra-tropical, but if it follows the warm water temps down towards the tropics, this could be epic.

a reply to: Violater1
wow, IT IS FALLING TOWARDS THE TROPICS.

Here is another video.
cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov...

a reply to: Violater1

And an additional graphic.

a reply to: Violater1

I have the feeling that with the way things are going on our poor ole mistreated earth storms...hurricanes, monsoons etc are just going to continue to get bigger, bigger and worse than anything in history...except for when the earth was going through its formation....

a reply to: ScrazzleBerry3

We right inline for the historical average.. 2012-2015 seasons were below average. Last couple have been above.

a reply to: Violater1

Is that the remnants of Chantal link

Maybe reforming?

a reply to: Violater1


I think it's an extratropical low that just spun up of all the convection that came off the Cape Verdes in the last few weeks, what's often called 'the freight train'. Historically, around the end of September, the CV storms decrease and things form in the lower Caribbean. I think we have three Invests working now in the Atlantic/Caribbean basin.

Very tight system that you outlined! I have been watching the Atlantic/Carib very closely in the past couple of weeks, and I didn't see it. Well done! It almost ....... almost looks like a closed circulation. Very cool! A fish storm.

Have family in P.E.I. and go up every year., Cavendish/N.Rustico farm. Just came back mid August. They were catching striped bass for the first time in 50 years up there. The Tuna are basically "on vacation" somewhere else, but the lobster catch was amazing for most (Ended 1 July for that part of the island). The water temperature was in mid 70's F.

I have been going up there every year since 1968. Changes... Changes...


Should note that some of the family are lobster fisherman.. 500+ traps. They are very experienced and said: The lobsters this year were passing through, thus the good catch. They are on their way to cooler waters, North, way past Newfoundland and heading toward Greenland and Iceland.
Hoping not a big trend because it would cost a great deal to fish them in waters like that environment. Lobsters migrate up and down the East coast but this is extreme.

Looks to me like a low pressure circulation. I see them often over the mainland US when a low pressure front is coming through. Since I live on the Gulf coast of Florida, those other two wannabe hurricanes bother me.

a reply to: charlyv

Is it normal behaviour for these lobsters to be passing through, like a cyclic thing or are they jumping ship to cooler waters as they know changes are coming ?

GOOD NEWS FOR MOST!

Dorian Downgraded to a Category 3 Storm: www.foxnews.com...

(Bad News for the HYPEsters and Doom-lovers)