Possible east coast hurricane this weekend

[niss]

Canadian model





European model

[skunkworks]

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[niss]

Wavewatch model (showing winds over the water only)

[punkass]

I don't know about anyone else, but the forecasters seem pretty clueless even when the damn thing becomes a hurricane. If you're hypothesizing even before it's a TS, then blahblahblahblah.

I admittedly may be very ignorant in this thinking. Your meteorology pics look nice.

[Case Closed]

From all of those pictures I gather that no hurricanes will be hitting Illinois.

Good luck east coast.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

niss please post appropriate updates! I'm supposed to go fishing off Cape Cod on Saturday

[Matt24]

whats the latest word on this?

[niss]

Will have more later after I see the afternoon model runs and read the comments of the forecaster. Right now here is one of the GFDL runs for 2 AM Monday. I read a very short commentary this morning that the model has landfall a little too far south. Looks like the storm might wait until after the weekend to make its appearance anywhere north of, say, Cape Hatteras.

[Grasshopp3r]

Intrade has hurricane futures. You need to profit on this storm. This is one of the better forecasting sites : http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

Remember, the intrade contracts are for Cat3+ at landfall. I would sell the contract at this time.

https://www.intrade.com/aav2/trading/tra...owExpired=false

[Quicksilvre]

Yeah, I'd sell too, the different models are all predicting some development, but it ranges from weak tropical storm to category 2 hurricane. Sunday and Monday seem to be the preferred landfall dates, if that occurs.

Nothing too horrible, but yeah, now it really looks like the Carolinas are going to be plenty of rain and some good wind, too.