On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 08:39:03 UTC+1, Weatherlawyer wrote:

Boris be damned! It is still Amanda and will still be Amanda no matter what they call it in the North Atlantic on the 5th or shortly thereafter.

http://parsonsweather.com/wxtropical.php

"According to the meteorological calendar, hurricane season began on May 15 in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and on June 1 in the Atlantic.
As of May 30, 2014, hurricane-ready waters in the Atlantic basin were concentrated in the Caribbean, along the Florida coast, and across the equator between Africa and South America. In the Eastern Pacific, the fuel for hurricanes stretched the length of Central America. Note how the supply of hurricane (cyclone/typhoon) ready waters are much broader and more substantial in the Western Pacific and North Indian ocean basins, where every season is typhoon season":

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83802

This is wrong:
"If the warm waters are quite shallow, the hurricane will readily mix colder water to the surface and quickly eliminate the fuel for the storm."

I admit it sounds reasonable but test it with logic. If the above was the case all storms would cease once they hit land. What is happening is that their gyroscopic integrity nutates and the thing runs along the floor shedding fronts as it goes.

Boris is trapped between two mountain ranges and can maintain its integrity in a process that defies explanation to date. No doubt Dawlish has an acrimonious counter-argument, most likely ad hominem. Fair enough. It is hard to argue with him without using character descriptions, what with him being several degrees short of a slight breeze.

From the above link:
"Ocean heat content is often derived by satellite altimeters such as OSTM/Jason 2, which measures deviations in the height of the ocean surface. The height of the surface reflects heat content because warm water expands to fill more space than cool water."

Whatever the case the advisories give Boris/Amanda a life span that takes it well into the thundery spell which starts tomorrow (5 June 2014.) Pity they cant overlay pressures at sea level in the same way.

And Finally:

"A volcanic eruption in Alaska forced a regional airline to cancel flights on Wednesday. Pavlof has been spewing ash and lava for years 600 miles south-west of Anchorage, began erupting with new intensity this week. PenAir began cancelling flights late on Tuesday because of high winds and ash on a route frequently used by jetliners.

Alaska Volcano Observatory reduced the alert level from red to orange thanks to reduced seismic activity.
Plumes reach heights of 24,000 feet (4.5 miles) but no ash has reached any communities."

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0OL2G320140604

Nice to go out with a bang.
Nicer still to have got it right.

Again.
Read me and weep!