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Owner/developer of https://t.co/geqWQ5rehS. PhD in meteorology from FSU. Senior Scientist at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Opinions are mine alone.
Aug 16, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵(1/) Keeping an eye on another tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic around 39W longitude. Some rotation is evident in satellite imagery, and there is a possibility that this disturbance approaches the Caribbean this weekend. Image (2/) This is a complex situation to predict accurately, because this disturbance is on the western end of the monsoon trough, an elongated belt of vorticity (spin) currently extending from 40W longitude to Africa. Image