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AGXX40 KNHC 091646
MIMATS

MARINE WEATHER DISCUSSION
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
230 PM EDT FRI OCT 09 2009

GULF OF MEXICO...
SRLY RETURN FLOW AT 15 TO 20 KT CONTINUES AROUND A RIDGE OF HIGH 
PRESSURE EXTENDING INTO THE FAR ERN GULF FROM THE WRN ATLANTIC. 
COLD FRONT REACHES THE TEXAS COAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON THEN 
MOVES OFFSHORE INTO THE EXTREME NW GULF TONIGHT BEFORE STALLING 
OUT ON SAT FROM S CENTRAL LA TO NW BAY OF CAMPECHE. WINDS 
QUICKLY SHIFT TO THE N BEHIND THE FRONT WITH NRLY SURGE 
OCCURRING AS COLDER AIR ALOFT MOVES OVER THE WARM GULF WATERS. 
SURGE WILL WEAKEN LATE SAT INTO SUN AS THE FRONT BEGINS TO LIFT 
BACK TO THE N AS A WARM FRONT. 

CARIBBEAN AND TROPICAL N ATLANTIC...
A TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED NEAR THE NICARAGUAN COAST SOUTH TO COSTA 
RICA WILL MOVE INLAND INTO CENTRAL AMERICA BY THIS EVENING. SCT 
CONVECTION OVER THE SW CARIBBEAN AND JUST TO THE N OVER HONDURAS 
BEING ENHANCED AS THE WAVE INTERACTS WITH LAND. LARGE AREA OF 8 
TO 12 FT SWELL BEING INDUCED BY ATLANTIC HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE TO 
THE NORTH AND COLOMBIAN LOW TO THE SOUTH WILL CONTINUE TO 
PROPAGATE OVER THE WRN HALF OF THE CARIBBEAN TONIGHT INTO EARLY 
SAT BEFORE SUBSIDING BY LATE SAT AS THE GRADIENT WEAKENS. NE TO 
E WINDS OF 20 TO 25 KT NEAR THE COAST OF COLOMBIA WILL CONTINUE 
THROUGH TUE. ANOTHER TROPICAL WAVE HAS ENTERED THE ERN 
CARIBBEAN. MAIN EFFECT FROM THIS WAVE WILL BE ISOLATED TO 
SCATTERED CONVECTION OVER THE ERN CARIBBEAN WITH BEST 
CONVERGENCE MOVING JUST INLAND OVER NRN VENEZUELA. 

SW N ATLANTIC...
HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE EXTENDS OUT ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE 
ATLANTIC WATERS. TROUGH WHICH IS THE REMNANT OF HENRI IS 
ENTERING EXTREME SE WATERS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION 
OCCURRING JUST N OF PUERTO RICO. WAVE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO 
THE WNW BEFORE DISSIPATING LATE SAT.

WARNINGS...

ATLC...
.NONE.

CARIBBEAN...
.NONE.

GULF OF MEXICO...
.NONE.

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FORECASTER LEWITSKY