
Se organiza rápidamente en aguas de 29°C. La cortante es de 5-10kts. La cereza de este 2020 seria que esto sea huracán



Wyoming escribió: ↑Mar Sep 15, 2020 6:48 pm Sobre el "medicane", se lo nombró Cassilda. Ignoró que agencia estatal lo hizo pero bueh.
El centro en niveles bajos se mete rápidamente bajo la convección.
ASCAT vió vientos de 35kt y un poco de 40kt en el SE del LLC.
Las aguas del Mar Jónico se ubican entre los 28°C - 29°C, más que suficiente para soportar una saludable tormenta tropical.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/mcd/medic ... greece-mk/
SUMMARY
A Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone – Medicane Ianos has developed over the Ionian Sea and is moving towards western Greece. A severe impact is increasingly likely. Ianos will bring destructive winds, torrential rainfall, tornadoes, and flooding across parts of Greece.
SYNOPTIC OVERVIEW
A large upper-level trough is dominating the European continent with one upper low over northwestern Russia and another low west of the Iberian peninsula.
Another upper low is moving across the southern Mediterranean and Greece towards the east. At the surface, a warm-core cyclone is deepening over the Ionian Sea and rapidly intensifies through Thursday. This tropical-like cyclone will move across western and southern Greece on Friday.
FORECAST DISCUSSION
HIGH risk has been issued for west-central Greece into the eastern part of the Ionian Sea with a threat for severe storms, capable of producing severe damaging winds, tornadoes, and torrential rainfall with flash floods.
The SIG and HIGH risk area highlight the highest and the most significant threat for potentially destructive flooding associated with the track of the Medicane Ianos.
In addition to the flooding threat, severe destructive hurricane-force winds will be associated along with the trailing cyclone’s inner core storms. Weather models are hinting peak gusts could exceed 200 km/h in some places.
The wind/flooding threat is particularly extreme over the Ionian Islands (Lefkas, Kefalonia, and Zakynthos) where the center of the medicane is likely to track on Friday morning.
Maintaining intense convective storms and orographic rainfall could bring the total rainfall accumulation exceeding 300-500 mm in a 48 hour period. Potentially even higher locally as some high-resolution models e.g. ICON-EU are simulating.
The highest amounts of rainfall are expected across the Peloponnese, Attica, and partly also across central Greece from Thursday afternoon through Friday into Saturday.
Ianos is likely to track north-northeast on Thursday, turning sharp east on Thursday night, and head for the landfall in western Greece on Friday morning hours.
Then, models are quite uncertain how the intensity and track continues towards Friday. The majority of the models are, however, tracking the low towards south-southeast after landfall and gradually decaying.
There is also an enhanced potential for tornadoes (waterspouts) along the Peloponnese and the southeastern Ionian Sea where strongly enhanced shear and helicity overlap with the low-level instability.
Storm surge could also become an issue along the west-southwest Greece, to the immediate south of the medicane’s track.
MDT/ENH/SLGT risks have been issued for areas surrounding the HIGH risk where the less robust threat is expected and it critically depends on the Medicane’s center track.
The overall severe winds and flooding threat will be gradually spreading east on Thursday as medicane will be moving towards Greece while intensifying.
See the mesoscale discussion here: Medicane forms over the Ionian Sea and heads for a dangerous landfall in Greece.
The exact position of the center strongly depends on the convective activity and it may shift to the north or south of the most-likely track. Conditions are closely monitored and an outlook update might be needed on Thursday afternoon.