Mark Guishard, a meteorologist with Bermuda Weather Service, had the opinion that the system had finished tropical cyclogenesis and was a tropical cyclone. Meteorologist Mark Lander thought that cloud tops were similar to several Atlantic hurricanes, Hurricane Vince in example. James Franklin, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center, thought that:
m ɑ ɹ k WORD_BOUNDARY ɡ ɪ ʃ ɑ ɹ d WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY m iː t ɪ ɔ ɹ ɑ l ə d̠ʒ ɪ s t WORD_BOUNDARY w ɪ ð WORD_BOUNDARY b ɜː m j uː d ə WORD_BOUNDARY w ɛ ð ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY s ɜː v ɪ s WORD_BOUNDARY h æ d WORD_BOUNDARY ð ɪ WORD_BOUNDARY ə p ɪ n iə n WORD_BOUNDARY ð æ t ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY s ɪ s t ə m WORD_BOUNDARY h æ d WORD_BOUNDARY f ɪ n ɪ ʃ t WORD_BOUNDARY t ɹ ɑ p ɪ k ə l WORD_BOUNDARY s aɪ k l oʊ d̠ʒ ɛ n ɪ s ɪ s WORD_BOUNDARY æ n d WORD_BOUNDARY w ʌ z ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY t ɹ ɑ p ɪ k ə l WORD_BOUNDARY s aɪ k l oʊ n WORD_BOUNDARY m iː t ɪ ɔ ɹ ɑ l ə d̠ʒ ɪ s t WORD_BOUNDARY m ɑ ɹ k WORD_BOUNDARY l æ n d ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY θ ɔ t WORD_BOUNDARY ð æ t WORD_BOUNDARY k l aʊ d WORD_BOUNDARY t ɑ p s WORD_BOUNDARY w ɜː WORD_BOUNDARY s ɪ m ɪ l ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY t ə WORD_BOUNDARY s ɛ v ɹ ə l WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ t l æ n t ɪ k WORD_BOUNDARY h ɜː ɹ ɪ k eɪ n z WORD_BOUNDARY h ɜː ɹ ɪ k eɪ n WORD_BOUNDARY v ɪ n s WORD_BOUNDARY ɪ n WORD_BOUNDARY ɛ ɡ z æ m p ə l WORD_BOUNDARY d̠ʒ eɪ m z WORD_BOUNDARY f ɹ æ ŋ k l ɪ n WORD_BOUNDARY ʌ WORD_BOUNDARY m iː t ɪ ɔ ɹ ɑ l ə d̠ʒ ɪ s t WORD_BOUNDARY æ t WORD_BOUNDARY ð ə WORD_BOUNDARY n æ ʃ ə n ə l WORD_BOUNDARY h ɜː ɹ ɪ k eɪ n WORD_BOUNDARY s ɛ n t ə ɹ WORD_BOUNDARY θ ɔ t WORD_BOUNDARY ð æ t WORD_BOUNDARY