TD17 Forecast to be Major Hurricane in Caymans

[DandyDon]

Okay, those maps from a few hours ago are gone and she's broken up. From Dr.M's report....

Hurricane Paloma has died, torn apart by high wind shear and passage over the rugged terrain of Cuba. The remains of Paloma can still be seen in satellite imagery, spinning over central Cuba, but with wind shear a hefty 50 knots, there is no chance of Paloma regenerating into a tropical storm. Elsewhere in the Atlantic, there are no threat areas to discuss, and none of the reliable computer models are forecasting tropical storm development over the next seven days. With wind shear expected to rise over the Caribbean later this week, and continue to remain at high levels until late November, it is likely that the Atlantic hurricane season of 2008 is finally over. It is possible we could get one more weak tropical storm out in the middle Atlantic, forming from an extratropical storm that gets cut off from the jet stream. Such storms are usually only a threat to shipping, and rarely affect land areas, though.