Hurricane Harbor: Updated 5 PM Friday Subtropical Storm Melissa Forms October Storm Got a Name.... New England Tropical & Winter All in One...

Melissa is one of those storms that people will talk about.

For a long time as a large, long term event.

Nothing massive is expected but still....

Beach erosion, ships at sea and high winds.

Strong storm surge...

People going to the water and watching.

Sea foam flying in the wind.

Flying sea foam at Nantasket Beach! Life long resident of 71 years has never seen anything like this in his life. @nbc10boston @necn pic.twitter.com/Z6w55w9MVv
— Chris Gloninger NBC10 Boston (@ChrisGNBCBoston) October 11, 2019

What a beautiful sailboat.

Anyway it was right to name it....

...it is truly a Subtropical Storm.

Tropical Storm force wind across a wide area.

Melissa carrying 60 mph winds.

Across a wide area.

Waiting for it's ticket out to sea.

The wild front with so much snow...

...going to pick up our cold hearted Melissa.

And travel East together...

Some discussion from the NHC to that effect.

Even as it becomes absorbed in the front...

...it will still be interesting to watch.

Typical Subtropical look...

Beautiful swirl.

Even more beautiful here below.

Sunday we can discuss the Carib and...

...the African wave.

And other possibilities for October storms.

Often October storms form close in...

...spin up and surprise us.

Or take days to come together.

Then explode as Michael did a year ago.

I'll update the blog on Sunday.

Have the most beautiful weekend!

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Ps... if you haven't read the earlier part...

...please keep reading.

The NHC reconsidered.

Based on the visible satellite image seen above

And several other viable parameters

Upgraded it to Melissa this morning.

I’ll do a full update later today

On the road.

For the record we now have Melissa.

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The most beautiful system in the tropics today.

No Name Tropical Storm... Quasi Nor'easter.

It seems to identify as a hurricane.

Got an eye like feature there.

October always interesting.

#video ontropics for short blog coming out momentarily https://t.co/XLVVLmtkcS #storm. pic.twitter.com/S23rFX3x4C
— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) October 11, 2019

Officially this is the story this morning.

30% chances today of getting a name.

Beautiful system deserves a name.

Way better than many this year.

Tightly wound.

There's the system in the pocket....offshore.

The front to the left that will pick it up.

As the sun came up picture below.

Below shows our continuous convection in the Carib.

Doing what we thought it would do.

Hugging the coastline.

A short blog this morning because I'm extremely busy and there isn't much to say other than the New England Storm with no name exceeded all expectations in it's sheer beauty in structure and visual imagery of waves pounding the coastline. While it is offshore, it is a large strong system worthy of being a Tropical Storm compared to many this year that limped along and yet it's one of the storms that can go either way depending on the discretion of the NHC. They have a 30% chance of forming currently that they may change down the road, as they do a non-existent area of weather off the African coast that the models have been showing. And, of course we have the Caribbean on Low Alert as in don't forget it's there .... but nothing is happening today. I'll be on the road today but I'm not Southbound, but putting up this beautiful picture my son took on and posted on Instagram. He's awesome artistic when it comes to photography and loves Miami. Wonder where he got that from?