Irma Discussion Thread

NHC_Atlantic

Advisories will likely be initiated at 11 AM EDT on the low pressure area west of the Cabo Verde Islands. #93L

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Wed Aug 30 2017

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Harvey, located over southwestern Louisiana.

1. Satellite images indicate that the low pressure area a couple
hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands has become better
organized overnight, and advisories will likely be initiated at 11
AM EDT on a tropical cyclone. The system is forecast to gradually
intensify and move west-northwestward to westward at about 15 mph
over the tropical Atlantic during the next several days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...near 100 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...near 100 percent.

It already looks like a depression on its way to being a TS.

They're going with Irma at 10:00.

AL, 11, 2017083012, , BEST, 0, 164N, 298W, 40, 1006, TS, 34, NEQ, 20, 0, 0, 30, 1012, 180, 20, 0, 0, L, 0, , 0, 0, IRMA

is this true.. just read this on NOLA.Com
Tropical Storm Irma formed Wednesday morning (Aug. 30) in the Atlantic Ocean near the Cabo Verde Islands, the National Hurricane Center said at 8 a.m.

Since it formed so early. Better chance it is a fish.

Is that true?  I thought based on models so far it seemed like we had a long tracker one here.