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- I do not have a track for this system, but I wanted to include a
- few brief comments by way of documenting an interesting eastern
- Atlantic low-pressure system in early February. A 1045 UTC visible
- image made on the morning of 1 February depicts a LOW to the west-
- southwest of the Canary Islands. The system was characterized by
- convection which had wrapped around the low-level center, and some of
- the models had analyzed the system as symmetric warm core on the
- preceding day. According to Sheldon Kusselson of the Satellite
- Analysis Branch, precipitable water values near the center were running
- about 150 to 175% of normal--very unusual for that location at that
- time of year. NHC considered opening an invest on the system, but the
- convection soon became sheared so no invest was opened.
- After the weakening LOW had become sheared and moved to the north of
- the Canary Islands, Julian Heming of the UK Met. Office noted that its
- appearance was similar to Hurricane Vince of 2005 after it had become
- sheared and weakened. Julian reported on 2 February that on the
- previous day he had noted a couple of 35-kt wind barbs in ASCAT data.
- On 4 February, as the LOW was approaching the Straits of Gibraltar
- area, convection made a comeback and an image at 04/1945 UTC depicts
- a sort of "eye-like feature". A weather station at Gibraltar reported
- 64 mm of rain from 04/0000 to 04/0600 UTC.
- According to Jack Beven of NHC, there are no formal plans to add
- this system as an unnamed subtropical storm. Jack indicated that there
- appeared to be a frontal structure connected with the system when it
- looked at its convective best on 1 February.
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