Hurricane Nadine

[matty40s]

Gone, well, as a named storm anyway.

REMNANTS OF NADINE DISCUSSION NUMBER 88

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL142012

1100 AM AST THU OCT 04 2012

BYE BYE NADINE. AFTER TRAVELING FOR OVER THREE WEEKS ACROSS THE

EASTERN ATLANTIC...AFFECTING THE AZORES TWICE...AND AFTER 88 NHC

ADVISORIES...NADINE HAS FINALLY DISSIPATED. SATELLITE IMAGES AND

ASCAT DATA INDICATE THAT BY 1200 UTC THIS MORNING...NADINE NO

LONGER HAD A CLOSED CIRCULATION AND HAD BECOME ASSOCIATED WITH A

COLD FRONT. PENDING A POST-STORM ANALYSIS...NADINE WILL TIE GINGER

OF 1971 AS THE SECOND-LONGEST-LASTING ATLANTIC TROPICAL STORM ON

RECORD AT 21.25 DAYS. AS A TROPICAL CYCLONE...WHICH INCLUDES THE

TROPICAL DEPRESSION STAGE...IT IS THE FIFTH-LONGEST-LASTING

TROPICAL CYCLONE ON RECORD IN THE BASIN...AT 21.75 DAYS

[peterf]

r.i.p

[JonMillar]

The last word from the NHC Forecast Discussion

000

WTNT44 KNHC 041438

TCDAT4

REMNANTS OF NADINE DISCUSSION NUMBER 88

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL142012

1100 AM AST THU OCT 04 2012

BYE BYE NADINE. AFTER TRAVELING FOR OVER THREE WEEKS ACROSS THE

EASTERN ATLANTIC...AFFECTING THE AZORES TWICE...AND AFTER 88 NHC

ADVISORIES...NADINE HAS FINALLY DISSIPATED. SATELLITE IMAGES AND

ASCAT DATA INDICATE THAT BY 1200 UTC THIS MORNING...NADINE NO

LONGER HAD A CLOSED CIRCULATION AND HAD BECOME ASSOCIATED WITH A

COLD FRONT. PENDING A POST-STORM ANALYSIS...NADINE WILL TIE GINGER

OF 1971 AS THE SECOND-LONGEST-LASTING ATLANTIC TROPICAL STORM ON

RECORD AT 21.25 DAYS. AS A TROPICAL CYCLONE...WHICH INCLUDES THE

TROPICAL DEPRESSION STAGE...IT IS THE FIFTH-LONGEST-LASTING

TROPICAL CYCLONE ON RECORD IN THE BASIN...AT 21.75 DAYS.

GLOBAL MODELS KEEP A VORTICITY MAXIMUM...ASSOCIATED WITH THE

REMNANTS OF NADINE...EMBEDDED WITHIN A LARGE EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE.

THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHWARD AND DISSIPATE IN

A DAY OR TWO.

FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS

INIT 04/1500Z 40.0N 26.7W 40 KT 45 MPH

12H 05/0000Z...DISSIPATED

$$

FORECASTER AVILA/BERG

r.i.p

This looks like the epitaph on her grave stone :-)

After a long and unfulfilled life:-

Edited October 4, 2012 by JonMillar

[Eskimo]

Bit of a tearful goodbye, you were one in a million Nadine

[davehsug]

Bye Nadine & thanks for the entertainment. Doesn't seem the same looking at the models & not seeing your familiar bullseye face smiling as you wandered around.

[Somerset Squall]

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