• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

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I was just looking at the GFS, and between the hours of 144 to 180 (on the 06Z run), it develops a pretty strong tropical / sub-tropical hybrid storm just off the northeast coast. That would be pretty intersesting to watch - but at 180 hours away, and little accuracy - I have my doubts. :x :(
 
Actually, if you track the storm back a few days you will see that it is really TD #24 (soon to be Wilma). This soon to be hurricane is forecast by the GFS to slam Fort Myers/Tampa/West coast of Florida as a major hurricane (can you say Frances??). Anyway, this is the storm that moves up the east coast and merges with a weaker disturbance off of the Northeast shoreline. This is the monster storm that you are seeing. Likely to be a huge extra-tropical low by that time.
 
Originally posted by HAltschule
Actually, if you track the storm back a few days you will see that it is really TD #24 (soon to be Wilma). This soon to be hurricane is forecast by the GFS to slam Fort Myers/Tampa/West coast of Florida as a major hurricane (can you say Frances??). Anyway, this is the storm that moves up the east coast and merges with a weaker disturbance off of the Northeast shoreline. This is the monster storm that you are seeing. Likely to be a huge extra-tropical low by that time.

I noticed... I headed over to the NHC website after posting - I haven't been keeping up to date lately on the tropics :oops:

What would be REAL interesting is that if the shortwave pulled down some of that cold air from Canada. Then once the storms merge, we end up with a rather significant early season Nor'easter. It's a long shot, and you would really need 850MB temperatures AOB -6C this time of year, but I will definitely be watching this.
 
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