Tropical Storm Irma

We're not even halfway through hurricane season, so there's another one brewing - Irma. It's way too far off to predict if it's going toward the Gulf/USA mainland, but here it is.


http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=6548&stc=1

Models mostly showing it going up the Atlantic coast, but year, its too far out to say for sure

Irma went straight from a Tropical Storm to a Category 2 Hurricane! It's still way out there and already a Cat-2! Keep an eye on it! What a tragedy it would be for another major hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast!

http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=6549&stc=1

The GFS model had that one turning into a major storm before it even left Africa, but it has been consistently keeping it in the Atlantic, just grazing the East Coast.

Now I understand the European model shows it headed for the Antilles.

Models here.

Model Guidance

It's now a hurricane, forecast to become a 'Major hurricane' by Friday and threaten the Lesser Antilles by the middle of next week...
HURRICANE IRMA

Wunderground has all the GFS runs (mostly to East Coast and Atlantic) and European (mostly GoM) runs posted at the link below.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/ir...ange-questions

Here's the latest on Irma. Hopefully, it'll track into the North Atlantic and die out there without hitting the mainland! It's expected to be a Category 4 - at least! A real MONSTER of a storm.

http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=6550&stc=1

Hoping for the same thing, and done for the season

If you want the best info go to spaghettimodels.com an see what Mike has to say. ALL the weather stations get their info from NOAA, the same people that pride themselves on knowing exactly how many snapper there are in the gulf. This guy uses NOAA info, but more important, knows how to read things a stupid computer cant.