Interesting System In The North Atlantic

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it won't develop but still interesting for this time of year

[Somerset Squall]

Indeed, a potent extratropical low which looks like, for a time at least, may have been taking on a few subtropical characteristics. As sign of things to come perhaps? Will we have an early start this year?

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I'm sure I've asked this before what was the earliest again? was it ana in 2003?

new image others where a bit older

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Reliably, I'd say so. It's certainly the only tropical storm in April in the Atlantic on record. Most say it's a cat 2 hurricane which formed in the Carribean and drifted southwestwards on March 6th 1908. However, records aren't totally reliable then but it's the earliest officially recorded. If we are including subtropical storms one formed on 18th January 1978, which is the only January storm to form (others have ran into January (Zeta, Alice) but not formed in January). As far as I know, the only month not to have a TC exist in the Atlantic is February.

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Thanks somerset

like ive said before anything to keep us ticking over at the moment :blush: