Will Hurricane Jose Impact New England's Coastline?

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The discussion centers on Hurricane Jose's projected path and impact on New England's coastline, with the ECMWF model indicating a track near Nantucket Island while the GFS model predicts a shift westward. The storm is expected to strengthen slightly, becoming an extra-tropical nor'easter with wind gusts up to 50 mph and minimal rain. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has adjusted its official track westerly, but it remains east of both the GFS and ECMWF predictions. Overall, the storm is not anticipated to be severe, with significant impacts expected from Hurricane Maria following Jose.

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I find it interesting that most of the tropical forecast "Spaghetti" models put out by the NHC have Jose well out to sea as it tracks off the east coast of the US. But those models do not include the incredibly accurate ECMWF "European" model, which tracks the storm closer to the US east coast, but still sparing most of the coast from any rain and significant wind, just rough surf; however, the track seems to put it on a beeline toward the offshore waters of New England, specifically, not too far east of Massachusetts' Nantucket Island on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning. It also shows some strengthening of the storm as it churns up the coast, which to me indicates it will be more of a Northeaster than a hurricane, since hurricanes tend to weaken as they move over the colder waters. But in any case, it doesn't look like a blockbuster storm, so no need to panic yet and start evacuating. It will be fun to watch to see if the European model will once again outsmart the other models and the human forecasters. Watch for the latest model updates twice daily on www.weather.unisys.com , click on ECMWF model. The American made GFS model is pretty good also, tracking it east of the ECMWF, but west of the tossed 'spaghetti' models.
 
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-European model maintaining its previous forecast track to off east Nantucket coast on Wednesday.
-GFS shifts it track WEST of the European (!) to off Delmarva peninsula Tuesday and slamming into RI and southeast MA on Wednesday, then stalling and weakening. (GFS-ECMWF rivalry is more intense than the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry).
-GFS looking ahead in 10 days at another ominous looking hurricane in the mid-Atlantic.
-NHC shifts official track westerly, but still east of the GFS/European tracks.

-In any case, storm will be Cat 1 as it churns up the Atlantic, plenty of Surf. Looks to me like it will strengthen a bit as it moves along, becoming an extra-tropical 'nor'easter', some rain SE NE, and wind gusts along shores to perhaps no greater than 40 or 50 mph. Quite survivable.

-But please refer to NHC for official guidance, thanks.
 
For anyone who still has interest, Jose will grind to a halt south then east of Nantucket , weaken, and reverse direction southward toward Hurricane Maria, which will be churning up the mid Atlantic next week.
Jose will bring some rain and wind to southern New England, mostly the Cape and Islands, Tuesday and Wednesday, but not significant, northeasterly wind gusts to 40 mph at most. Maria, on the other hand, will be more potent, more or less following the same path as Jose did, the latter of which will be absorbed by the former.
I've had it up to my eyeballs with the NHC, they need a good forecaster down there. I nominate Old Dan to take over the helm.
 
I was just watching the Weather Channel. There was a very interesting 3D graphic in which it looked like the presenter was standing in front of a house. The winds increased from Cat 1 to Cat 5 and it showed the damage. I certainly wouldn't want to go through even a Cat 2.

Meanwhile, people on the Florida Keys are still struggling. It will take months and perhaps even a year or more for full recovery.

Maria is extremely dangerous and the WC just reported that there are concerns that on Wednesday it may make landfall on Puerto Rico as a Cat 5, which would be catastrophic.
 
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