One is the remnants of Gaston, which is breaking up and the other is looking like it's going to be yet another fish storm.
"Uh oh" for the fish in the Atlantic... From the Sci-Guy: It's unlikely Igor will come into the Gulf of Mexico -- but early model runs have very little reliability. I certainly wouldn't rule out Igor coming into the northeast Caribbean. Most likely this will turn into the open Atlantic, but it's too early to say so.
i'm convinced you're rooting for a direct hit. every storm that spins off the coast of Africa has you calculating the day of reckoning.
Over 12" of rain here in Round Rock since early Tuesday. We're now at a surplus of rain for the year and it's only Sept. 8th. Can't wait for the mosquitoes to come out this weekend when it heats up.
When IKE came I took off to California and ended up staying there for nine days. That would be nice again.
I read that it's more likely for storms that come off Africa to be fish storms now at this point due to cold fronts starting up.
The peak season hurricane steering currents for 2010 seem to be pretty well set. The forecasting models are predicting the same pattern of low pressure troughs spinning off the east coast, which have the tendency to pull Atlantic storms northward. This isn't to say a storm wouldn't show up in the Gulf. One just did. It would just appear that Atlantic storms have a lesser chance this year of making it all the way to Texas. Anyway, about 2 more weeks and we'll be out of the woods anyway as the chances of a hurricane striking the Texas coast after about the 25th of September grow very long.
Not exactly. As I mentioned in my last post, the series of low pressure troughs that continue to move across the east coast and into the Atlantic can have the effect of pulling storms northward, but this is only the case for organized storms. More organized storms tend to feel the effects of passing low pressure systems and are more influenced by them. Storms that remain relatively disorganized are largely unaffected by this influence allowing tropical waves to continue moving to the west when tropical storms and hurricanes are pulled to the north. We won't have any real cold fronts for a few more weeks. Texas probably won't get our first cool front until the first week of October - maybe the end of September if we are lucky.
