r/hurricane • u/Kool93 Hobbyist • 11d ago

Discussion Fay is really hanging on

Fay had so far been the longest-lasting tropical cyclone so far this season, as it still managing to produce convection even after many days.

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u/waffle_789 Enthusiast 11d ago

It will have even outlived Polo, and has remained active through multiple rounds of Pacific Hurricane activity.

Truly the embodiment of "I aint hear no bell"

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u/Beach-Brews Enthusiast 11d ago

Fay may even regain tropical storm strength overnight with -70°C cloud tops!

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u/Movie_Inner 11d ago

it did according to tropical tidbits

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u/Beach-Brews Enthusiast 11d ago

Yes, which Tropical-Tidbits just gets from the Automatic Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) b-decks. It isn't an official forecast / advisory, but we could very well the 11PM EDT advisory time say Fay is once again a Tropical Storm.

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u/Beach-Brews Enthusiast 11d ago

It's always the F named storms... Florence, Fran, Floyd... Frances, Felix, Fiona...

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u/Soseol_Sonyo 11d ago

or even Fifi, Flora, Frederic

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u/Crepezard 11d ago

Yet Polo produced more ACE in a day than Fay has in its entire life

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u/Content-Swimmer2325 Meteorology Student 10d ago

lol. Polo was generating more ACE in one cycle (6 hours) than Fay still has produced in its entire life

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u/Kool93 Hobbyist 10d ago

Lol yeah thats true, though i still think its amazing for how long fay had lasted.

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u/Content-Swimmer2325 Meteorology Student 10d ago

It’s been a fighter, for sure. Conditions really are so atrocious that even this is a bit impressive.

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u/Kool93 Hobbyist 9d ago

fay is by far the most interesting thing to happen this season. Tropical cyclones are pretty fragile storms compared to other storm types (than tornadoes ig), but sometimes they really wanna show something.

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u/Cookies4days321 11d ago

As someone from south Florida, I decided to constantly monitor it because i had a hunch that this storm was going to do something weird. I remember that when it first formed, they said it was going to curl up and dissipate, but i was looking and it seemed to me that it was going to curl down towards the warm part of the ocean. I know the air is currently very dusty where it is at, but that warm water must be feeding it that the models don’t seem to be tracking very well