I agree. There was a clear closed circulation on satellite with this
system in the middle of last week. Now suddenly "Oh, oops we have a
hurricane!" Maybe no surface station had measured winds over 35
sustained (I know there were gusts > 45) but that hasn't stopped them
before from declaring storms way out in the Atlantic. Maybe there were
other reasons for them not declaring it earlier, but it does seem
strange to me.
Thomas Giella wrote:
>
> I'm really surprised to see the NHC behind the eight ball so far with
> Lenny. Normally towards the end of a Hurricane season they are usually
> really on the ball, some years even overaggressive by calling
> questionable systems tropical.
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