ISAIAS Picks up Forward Speed and Moves Towards the Carolinas (and Georgia... being a bit ignored here it will be close to Georgia)

(losing some color there Isaias... wants to make landfall)

Thinking outloud #tropics #Isaias forecast to be a #hurricane before landfall in the Carolinas. Georgia gets a piece too.... is it in a rush to meet the trof? What then?? pic.twitter.com/yYPsfu2TqY

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) August 3, 2020

Doing a short blog this morning and a longer blog this afternoon. I have things to do here in Raleigh before the storm and I'm skeptical what we will get but this storm has been filled with surprises often so letting it play out. I thought on going to Wrightsville, in truth need to go early in the morning to get back here to be able to record what this neck of the woods really gets. The water looked a bit too flat for me to lose 5 hours today driving down and back just in travel time. Meh... as they say. 

To me something still seems off in the water vapor loop and ISAIAS is not well stacked and has a center, a mid center and other centers bobbing around and none of the seemed stacked so how it intensifies before landfall is a question. Current presentation is meh... iffy but maybe it explodes in one of it's infamous "look at me bursts of convection" and the NHC decides to upgrade. Again, I've said this forever, some systems have odd presentations and it's easy to make fun of them but I'd never make fun of a wave that managed to stay together as an entity all the way from Africa in extremely negative conditions too early in the season. It definitely is a storm with a mission and has places it wants to go. 

Chick is very good at explaining the Sandhills.

He often has something to say about places further North.

Not showing the cone right now.

Not much has changed with it.

NHC has kept it going from run to run.

Model agreement seems to rule.

Some models pulled more to the West recently.

This is a 3 day Loop.

If it's in here ... it usually happens.

With very little variance.

Allan Huffman is Raleigh Weather.

He's very good. 

Power outages possible (hope not)

Winds gusting 40 to 70 mph.

Depends where you live........

...and depends how far inland ISAIAS goes.

Last night was annoying.

I got poetic....

... even a mediocre storm can be interesting.

More later from Raleigh,

Besos BobbiStorm

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