Friday Morning update.....
T.D. 13- About a 100 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Forecasted to become a T.S tomorrow. Not too much shift in path. Storm as projected, skims or skirts north of the large Caribeean islands. passing near Key West Monday afternoon. Storm then is projected to reach minimal Hurricane Strength near or up to a few hundred miles SW of Tampa, but with storm with a continued progression NW, then NNW. Actual path bullseye is on Pensacola, but Cone of Uncertainity is relatively wide from Morgan City, La, to about Palm Beach, FL, on the ATL side.
Storm as of the last few hours has encountered some pretty strong ESE to WNW sheer, (at least that appearance on radar). In fact, in the last hour, and convection has reduced a tad, and the shape of the storm is more elongaged.. Plus I am having trouble finding a COC in the radar loop. I wouldn't be absolutley shocked if NHC downgrades to Tropical Wave on their 10 am advisory
T.D. 14- At the moment hugging the coast of Honduras, and in fact good bit of the convection of 14 is on land. Still, easy to spot the COC on radar. Storm is expected to make a pretty abrupt NW, then NNW turn shortly based on a deep trough located at Yucatan Penn, to the west coast of FL. The storm is expected to reach hurricane strength as it approaches the Yucatan Penn (Sunday Morning), lose it over land, re-emerge over the gulf (Sunday Afternoon), and slowly build back to minimal hurricane force in the gulf by Monday. At this exact moment the bullseye is on High Island, with the cone of uncertainty covering from about Palacios, Texas to Morgan City, La. Now my $.02, and maybe false hope. Two things against, and two things for.... First things that may prevent strengthening... (1) Trough that I mentioned earlier, may have significant shear effects near and after the Yucatan passing (2) Huge tongue of dry air infiltration in the western Gulf may hinder development Now the two the may cause it be worse. (1) The Gulf is bathwater hot right now. More than enough fuel to feed a big Cane. (2) Once this storm gets pass the trough, and somehow avoids a potential N or NNE turn, Sheer will be a minimum.
And one last point to bring up on T.D 14, trending... Last night's track had landfall at Galveston Bay, this morning at High Island. The very most recent model runs available (TVC's), have it further trending toward the east. Really anxious for the HWRF to run, to see if this is a continued trend.