re: Zeta - The cleanup begins

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Epsilon spun up into a cute little hurricane

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Major hurricane now. Kinda weird to see, just hanging out in the middle of a big upper level trough.

ETA: it's over pretty cool water to get to major status, despite it being warmer than normal out there. It has some outflow help and it being under the trough means the upper troposphere is cooler than typical over the tropics. So it still has a decent temperature differential to work with despite the cooler surface water.

Pretty sure this is the farthest north and east major on record for October and a strange storm for sure. Glad it's mostly a fish storm so I can just enjoy watching it.

I think that picture is fake

Damn. Should send that pic to weather channel, pretty cool

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Replying to @FlynonymousWX
Best eye of the 2020 season #HurricaneEpsilon

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@pppapin

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Watching the last 72h water vapor animation of #Epsilon from genesis to major hurricane is mesmerizing.

Starting on 00z 20 Oct, deep convection focused near the center & helped build an anticyclonic cocoon of moisture; shielding it from very dry air rotating around cyclonically. LINK

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Pretty cool watching it fight off that dry air.

Epsilon says "what dry air?"

Holy hell. Has like half the basin covered.

Looks like a comma shaped baroclinic cyclone look. Just with a hurricane in the middle and a puny looking cold front.

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Fri Oct 23 2020

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane
Epsilon, located over the west-central Atlantic a couple of hundred
miles northeast of Bermuda.

1. A broad area of low pressure located near Grand Cayman Island is
producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms mainly east and
south of the center. This system has become much better organized
since yesterday, and a tropical depression could form during the
next couple of days while the low moves slowly toward the northwest.
This system is now anticipated to move near western Cuba this
weekend and move slowly across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico by
early next week. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall
will be possible over portions of the Cayman Islands, Cuba,
southern Florida and the Keys, and the northwestern Bahamas through
the weekend.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.

Forecaster Blake/Papin

It was initally suppose to go northeast away from the US now it likes nope gonna head into the Gulf now.