Triple Tropical Threat?
UPDATE: As NASA points out, sea surface temperatures are conducive to hurricane formation over much of the Atlantic, and it's only a matter of time now.
ORIGINAL POST:
Meteorologists are monitoring several possible centers of low pressure near the Southeast United States. Earlier this morning, the National Hurricane Center was running their Tropical forecast models on a low pressure in the northern Bahamas, but now they've switched to one farther to the northeast:
If you're thinking that looks bad, because each model is taking the storm in a different direction, you're right. Expanding to all available forecast models and limiting the forecast to 60 hours out, we see this mishmash of tracks:
And in addition, there is a low pressure system in the Gulf which no one is tracking yet. With us at the stepping stones of the average hurricane season's rapid ramp-up in activity, there are sure to be many sweaty brows on weather weenies worldwide this week, if you'll allow me one more alliteration.
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