BREAKING NEWS: Hurricane Season Underway...

[canuk woman]

A subtropical storm is weaker than a tropical storm. It's not quite a tropical storm - but it probably will be. Subtropical storms have all the characteristics of a tropical storm and can still form into a Category 1 hurricane.

Did they ditch the word "Depression" or something? Why would they add the "Sub"?

 

[desertrat]

Is a subtropical storm a tropical storm that forms outside of the hurricane season?? I'm just asking this is like the first time I have ever heard of such a thing.

A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of a tropical cyclone and some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone. They can form in a wide band of latitude, from the equator to 50°.

 

[canuk woman]

I thought it was off the coast of South Carolina, but I could be wrong.

Well CNN said it was 140 miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia.

 

[canuk woman]

A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of a tropical cyclone and some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone. They can form in a wide band of latitude, from the equator to 50°.

So if it was close enough to the equator then it would be considered "Sub tropical"?

 

[awpitt]

It's moving to the south - NOAA predicts it will become a hurricane by Saturday.

According to this...

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/145632.shtml?5day?large

it won't reach hurricane strength by Saturday. Looks like it'll get to tropical storm strength then fall back to depression strength.

 

[desertrat]

So if it was close enough to the equator then it would be considered "Sub tropical"?

I have a feeling it has a lot to do with the way and conditions under which they form too. Tropical storms can form in near the equator also.

 

[canuk woman]

I have a feeling it has a lot to do with the way and conditions under which they form too. Tropical storms can form in near the equator also.

That's true.

Apparently that patch of blue around the Bahamas were Coral reefs. I had a teacher correct me on that.

 

[Inkpen]

Here:
Feeder bands just at NC/VA state line.
They did predict an active hurricane season!

 

[Nickel]

Well CNN said it was 140 miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia.

Well, if you look at a satellite image, you'd see that it's still off the coast of SC.

 

[canuk woman]

Well, if you look at a satellite image, you'd see that it's still off the coast of SC.

Yeah I went on CNN again and there was another image.

 

[nachomama]

Yeah I went on CNN again and there was another image.

Was it coral reefs? :shrug:

 

[Nickel]

Was it coral reefs? :shrug:

Nah, it's not coral reef season yet.

 

[nachomama]

Nah, it's not coral reef season yet.

Well, it's not hurricane season yet either, but looky what we got a brewing off the coast...

 

[canuk woman]

Was it coral reefs? :shrug:

No.

 

[desertrat]

Prediction, for what it's worth.

 

[Softballkid]

Wow. My 15 year old may have a future in meteorology. She told me yesterday morning that system looked like a tropical storm or hurricane.

We need a live weather report from Socki.

She is prolly outside boarding up the windows in all.....and going: Why did I leave Maryland for this horseshit "

 

[Nickel]

Well, it's not hurricane season yet either, but looky what we got a brewing off the coast...

Coffee?

 

[Tinkerbell]

A subtropical storm is weaker than a tropical storm. It's not quite a tropical storm - but it probably will be. Subtropical storms have all the characteristics of a tropical storm and can still form into a Category 1 hurricane.

SUBtropical storms are storms that have some of the characteristics of a tropical storm, and the potential to actually become a tropical depression or tropical storm. They were originally called semi-tropical storms.

A storm weaker than a tropical storm is a tropical depression, not a subtropical storm.

 

[desertrat]

SUBtropical storms are storms that have some of the characteristics of a tropical storm, and the potential to actually become a tropical depression or tropical storm. They were originally called semi-tropical storms.

A storm weaker than a tropical storm is a tropical depression, not a subtropical storm.

Also....Transition from extratropical
By gaining tropical characteristics, an extratropical low may transit into a subtropical depression/storm. A subtropical depression/storm may further gain tropical characteristics to become a pure tropical depression/storm, which may eventually develop into a hurricane, and there is at least one case of a tropical storm transforming into a subtropical storm. Generally, a tropical storm or tropical depression is not called subtropical while it is becoming extratropical, after hitting either land or colder waters. This transition normally requires significant instability through the atmosphere, with temperature differences between the underlying ocean and the mid-levels of the troposphere requiring over 40 °C of contrast in this roughly 20,000 foot/6000 meter layer of the lower atmosphere. [2]


[edit] Characteristics
These storms can have maximum winds extending further from the centre than in a purely tropical cyclone. The maximum recorded wind speed for a subtropical storm is 33 m/s (119 km/h, 65 knots, or 74 mph), also the minimum for a hurricane. In the Atlantic Basin, the United States NOAA classifies subtropical cyclones similar to their tropical cousins, based on maximum sustained surface winds. Those with winds below 18 m/s, 65 km/h, 35 kts, or 39 MPH are called subtropical depressions, while those at or above this velocity are referred to as subtropical storms.[3]

Subtropical cyclones are also more likely than tropical cyclones to form outside of a region's designated hurricane season. Subtropical Storm Ana (which became Tropical Storm Ana) in mid-April of the 2003 hurricane season is such a case.

 

[hborror]

Damn that Mother nature for not waiting for her date.

Oh let the fun begin