Tropical Storm Chantal

[toxictwister00]

I always get confused with this, but if Chantal's remnants develop into a TS again, will it be Chantal or Dorian?

[Eric]

I always get confused with this, but if Chantal's remnants develop into a TS again, will it be Chantal or Dorian?

If the remnants remain identifiable with any sort of cohesion, any regenerated tropical system that results will once again be Chantal.  This last happened in the Atlantic just last year with Nadine.  On September 21 it degenerated from a tropical storm to a sub-tropical storm, and on September 22 it degenerated into a post-tropical system.  Just a day and a half later it regenerated as a tropical storm and kept its name.  Also last year, T.D. 7 degenerated into a tropical wave on August 11, but on August 17 the system regenerated into a tropical storm and was named Helene.  Since the remnants between August 11 and 17 could still be tracked as a single system, the regenerated storm was considered to be a continuation of the tropical depression that degenerated on the 11th.

[toxictwister00]

I always get confused with this, but if Chantal's remnants develop into a TS again, will it be Chantal or Dorian?

If the remnants remain identifiable with any sort of cohesion, any regenerated tropical system that results will once again be Chantal.  This last happened in the Atlantic just last year with Nadine.  On September 21 it degenerated from a tropical storm to a sub-tropical storm, and on September 22 it degenerated into a post-tropical system.  Just a day and a half later it regenerated as a tropical storm and kept its name.  Also last year, T.D. 7 degenerated into a tropical wave on August 11, but on August 17 the system regenerated into a tropical storm and was named Helene.  Since the remnants between August 11 and 17 could still be tracked as a single system, the regenerated storm was considered to be a continuation of the tropical depression that degenerated on the 11th.

Thanks Eric, I thought so but I wasn't 100% sure.

[phw115wvwx]

Well, the remnants of Chantal dissipated entirely a couple days ago, so the tropics are quiet once again.  The models were definitely impacted badly with its progress since Chantal was a poorly defined storm.  You really can't trust the models on a tropical cyclone until there's a good center position and decent organization that would allow enough information about the circulation to be fed into the supercomputers.