A complex low pressure system extended from the Great Lakes to off the US East Coast on the 23rd moving rapidly eastward.
NOAA Satellite Image
By early on the 25th the now rapidly deepening system was consolidating into a single hurricane-force storm system southeast of Newfoundland.
NOAA OPC Surface Analysis 25 Feb 2023 1200Z
During the next 18-24 hours the storm deepened rapidly to a 944 mb storm east of Cape Race with winds of 60-80 knots and significant wave heights of up to 14.5 meters (48 ft) within 240-300 nm south and west of the center.
NOAA OPC Surface Analysis 26 Feb 2023 1200UTC
NOAA North Atlantic Wave Height Analysis
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Fred Pickhardt
