On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:13:39 -0700 (PDT)
Tudor Hughes wrote:

On Aug 20, 9:49Â*am, willie eckerslike
wrote:
On Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:29:03 PM UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:03:21 -0700 (PDT)

Simon S wrote:

Is this not an unusual track for a hurricane to take.

Seem to be making it along way across the Atlantic.

Well, the blob (technical term) does seem to be edging ENE on the
IR loops, and becoming ever closer to the SW'ly jet over that area.

On the Radio 4 0030 forecast Chris Fawkes said there would be
extensive high cloud over S England tomorrow (Tues), this having spun
off from hurricane Gordon. Can this really be true? Since when did
feeble ex-hurricanes have a 2000-mile cirrus shield flung out ahead of
them? Maybe Gordon has just about engaged the jet stream but surely
this is a misleading connection to make? I cannot see any evidence of
this on various satpics. It sounds like journalistic hyperbole to me.


I don't know what satellite pictures you were looking at, but the past
couple of days of Meteosat pictures show the outflow cloud from
hurricane Gordon being sheared further and further NE towards the UK.
The reason for Gordon declining to a "feeble ex-hurricane" - apart from
it encountering lower sea temperatures - was the increasing shear it
encountered as an upper trough caught up with it.

So, no "journalistic hyperbole" after all.


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