HillsdaleMIWeather

Lowered to Cat 3 125 mph due to the EWRC

Definite weakening trend 

1 minute ago, SnoSki14 said:

Landfall is 2-3hrs away. They'll keep it at 130mph until then. 

This is a higher end 3 if we're being honest and a relatively small system. Florida is fortunate it's hitting a remote location too. 

It was def Cat 4 but like an hour and a half before they did the 5 am advisory 

The eastern eyewall is starting to look healthier again

2 minutes ago, MattPetrulli said:

Frictional convergence helping it a bit. Seeing towers go up on IR too. Windfield is massively unimpressive I am surprised at the lack of tropical storm condition reports.

Probs cause of the moat SE of the eye, a lot of the tropical storm conditions will be behind the center

Eye looks to be recovering from whatever that was

Southern eyewall just opened up

Newest pass missed the center sadly

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The hurricane still has a few hours left to intensify before it
makes landfall." 

From 5 am discussion 

Those new blowups are so intense they're completely blocking the eye on satellite 

They've already found Cat 4 winds lol and with the amount of lightning and blowups it'll probably deepen a bit more

They'll probs go Cat 4 at 5 am

I've heard people arguing about whether there's dry air of if it's just the radar, anyone got a clear answer?

Still 944 on the new pass

944 mb extrapolated, 101 knots SFMR

Another nice burst of convection just went up

Officially a Hurricane 

Nice blowup going on rn

5 AM advisory says they could be too low, now peaks at 90mph

Just wanted to say I miss the ALL CAPS days where the NWS would put a nice long synopsis of what's going on and causing an event in warnings/watches/advisories.

Michigans first killer tornado in years 

Webberville got super lucky, the worst part of it went through wooded and cropped areas with insane ground scouring, but even then the city part of it was given an EF-2

Missed to the east here locally, not gonna complain about it

Williamston [Ingham Co, MI] Emergency Mngr reports Tstm Wnd Dmg at 24 Aug, 9:35 PM EDT -- Multiple cars flipped over on I-96. Possible tornado.

Lots of initiation starting in Michigan 

Waiting for the watch