Will Dorian pick up speed again once it clears the landmass of the Bahamas?

[kentuck]

It is such a strong hurricane, it is really unpredictable.

Are the waters off the coast of Florida a little cooler than the area it has just traveled? if so, that may slow it down a bit?

This is a heckuva storm!

[Lochloosa]

1. Hurricanes don't move on there own. They have no mechanism for that.

Think of a too spinning on a table. It won't move unless something makes it. Tilt of the table, you blowing on it etc.

Something has to push a hurricane. Wind

The waters it's in are hot enough to maintain it's strength.

It's supposed to have a little shear and that will weaken it a little. It's still a monster.

[rampartc]

2. the gulf stream is warmer

where it goes depends on steering winds and the location of a continent's worth of high and low pressure areas.

I think the slower they move the more unpredictable.

[mnhtnbb]

3. I just heard an interview on msnbc

with the chief science officer of the magazine Popular Science.

She had two interesting things to say about the stall:

It is losing energy because of the stall which allows it to churn up cooler water from greater depths because it is staying in place

It is stalled possibly due to an influence of climate change due to the fact the polar winds are moderating in temperature. One of the things that keeps the hurricane moving is disparity in wind temps between tropical winds and the wind currents coming down from the Arctic.

Really interesting.

[AJT]

4. The models seem to have hitting land at Georgia and going up the coast.

The wind forcast is 40 to 50 mph.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I don't think the land mass of the Bahamas are enough to affect it much...

If it changes, it will be due to other factors.