This has to be the most spectacular cyclone genesis ever! The remnants of #HurricaneJulia become (what is most likely) #HurricaneKarl.
Close up view of the last six hours. It looks as if the #TSKarl (soon to be #HurricaneKarl reversed direction again and is heading back north into the shear, and soon the night. It will be interesting to see whether it continues to strengthen and survives the night.
This is a truly extraordinary storm. One for the history books. The role of the separated southern storm (the other part of #HurricaneJulia's remnants cut in half by the Tehuantepecer now over the Pacific which was feeding Karl in making this possible deserves closer examination.
Here are the two children of #HurricaneJulia, there remains a possibility that #Invest99E may also become a hurricane. At present it may be close enough to #Karl to be being inhibited by it.
In this view we can see another Arctic blast coming south which will in all likelihood prevent Karl from ever making a US landfall if it does survive the night, and the severe shear winds that it will soon move back into as it travels north.
The stunning macro-scale satellite imagery of this storm also deserves an acolade. This was also a characteristic that was very obvious with #HurricaneJulia, well before she became a hurricane.
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