THERE IS LITTLE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MODELS ON THE TRACK OF GAMMA...AS MOST OF THE GLOBAL MODELS FORECAST DISSIPATION IN 72 HR OR LESS. THE GFS AND NOGAPS FORECAST A VERY WEAK GAMMA TO TURN EASTWARD ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN ... WHILE THE GFDL BRINGS A STRONGER GAMMA TOWARD SOUTH FLORIDA.The name "Gamma" comes from the third letter of the Greek alphabet. Having run out of English letters, the National Hurricane Center now is using letters and (if we're unlucky) symbols from other languages.
Hurricane season is supposed to end November 30. Let's hope there are enough foreign language letters to cover future storms.
"It just won't stop," says the Miami Herald (free subscription required) in an early evening tropical weather update:
Tropical Storm Gamma soon could follow Hurricane Wilma's trail across South Florida -- a place still tattooed with blue tarps, still filled with dangerous piles of hurricane debris, still shaken by the most active hurricane season in history.
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Preliminary and unusually uncertain predictions carried Gamma to the Naples area Monday and then diagonally across South Florida as a strong tropical storm -- but with winds likely below the 74-mph threshold of a hurricane.
High clouds associated with Gamma already flowed over South Florida. Forecasters warned of the possibility of three to six inches of rain and gusty winds through Monday.
But they said Gamma's fate -- and South Florida's -- was not clear. The storm was not well organized and it could fall apart or dramatically shift direction before it approaches Florida.
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