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Weather Discussion => Hazardous Weather => Hurricane Central => Topic started by: toxictwister00 on November 19, 2013, 11:53:13 PM

Title: Tropical Storm Melissa
Post by: toxictwister00 on November 19, 2013, 11:53:13 PM
At some point this week we got Subtropical Storm Melissa.   :whistling:
Title: Re: Tropical Storm Melissa
Post by: phw115wvwx on November 20, 2013, 02:09:22 PM
Melissa actually just gained full tropical status this morning after completing tropical transition and no longer looking like a hybrid of extratropical and tropical features, which met the definition for Melissa to be subtropical at the beginning.  Therefore, Melissa is now a tropical storm, but it will eventually lose those tropical characteristics and turn back to extratropical in the next 24-36 hours as the shear increases and the water temperatures go cooler.  NHC has this storm weakening over the far eastern Atlantic in a few days.