David Reimer

To your credit Maria has not behaved as one would expect. I didn't think it would get its act back together so quickly this morning after moving back off-shore. Both Irma and Maria have demonstrated wacky/typhoon-like behavior.

They're the weather channel, of-course they sent someone to PR. There are several storm chasers down there as well I'm sure. They know there is a high likelihood that they'll be there for an extended period. The footage should be spectacularly horrifying.

IR looking an tad better over the last hour with cooler cloud tops wrapping by back around in the northern and northwestern sections of Maria. Eye looking decent as well. I doubt winds are actually remotely near 155 MPH right now, but wouldn't be shocked to to see them respond back up into high-end cat 4 later this morning if pressures can fall back into the lower 930s. An ERC would put a halt to that. Longer we can hold off an ERC probably the better for PR. Hopefully we can time this to where it's undergoing an ERC at lndfall versus coming out of one and into a strengthening phase. Either way PR is screwed by wind and prolific rains in the coming days.

Wouldn't it be something if it just started right back up right where it left off? Latest vortex reported a 12 NM closed circular eye. Almost makes me wonder if the island's interaction may have 'helped' Maria to avoid an ERC by causing a temporary disruption and helping the eye get a tad bigger. Just speculation and absolutely no meteorological basis to that speculation, but what a fascinating storm to watch.

At this juncture, I'd say the Dominica impact on Maria will be short-term - as in it won't matter in a couple of hours. If anything this may allow Maria to organize again overnight and into Tuesday morning. It maintained a well-defined inner core and that core is showing some signs of organization over the last 45 minutes. Maria continues to be a major hurricane and will remain that way for the next several days. Preparations on the Virgin Islands and in Puerto Rico should be rushed to completion. I'd expect far more substantial impacts in PR - including San Juan - from Maria then what they experienced from Irma. Don't get bogged down on these short-term intensity fluctuations because conditions are quite favorable for Maria to be one bad sucker through the late week.

Yes, a small vortex/eyewall directly interacting with rugged terrain, even over a landmass as small as Dominica is disruptive. Not surprising to see the pressure rebound. With the eyewall completely back over water now, looking closed and still very organized, there will probably be a leveling off of the current pressure rise. But I would still expect a delay before any reintensification and deepening. Tough to forecast that. Will likley remain at least a Category 4 over night however. It may make another run at Cat 5 given the outstanding upper environment over the next day or two. Indeed. I wonder if this land interaction may help promote an ERC - as the eye was already fairly small - or if this temporary weakening might actually delay an ERC with the current eye perhaps taking additional time to organize. It's over bathwater and based on Harvey and Irma - I've pretty much come to accept the unexpected is probable, so who knows. Small cores like Irma have been torn to shreds with land interaction, but it is 2017... Anyway, GOES 16 1 hr data shows the eye looking more circular, defined, and comparatively larger on IR (band 13) compared to an hour ago. Cloud tops surrounding the eye are warmer (-65 to -75C versus the -80 earlier) and noticeably warmer in the NW quad. If recon confirms the pressure rises have stopped I'd watch out since this thing could get itself energized again in a hurry. For those wanting an awesome site for data - check out the RealEarth site from the University of Wisconson. 1-minute data from GOES 16 for Maria is available under the mesoscale sector #2 - band #13 (enhanced color) - http://re.ssec.wisc.edu/. You'll want to use band #2 once we get back to daylight conditions. EDIT: IR showing +12C temperature in the eye compared to about +1C an hour ago. Let's see if recon will make another pass through, but I would at least expect to see no additional pressure rises, and wouldn't be shocked to see it a tad lower. Let's watch it over the next hour or two to get a 'trend' set on it being steady-state or resuming an intensification trend. Regardless I'd expect winds to have come down fairly substantially for now in response to the land interaction. If pressure starts falling those winds will probably ramp back up in a hurry.

It'll be interesting to see how Maria does now that it is back over the water. Such small cores can be impacted significantly by land interaction - hence the ~20 MB rise in a relatively short period. However, they can also get their act together in a hurry if the land interaction wasn't too damaging to the inner core - which I'm not sure it was based on the fact it only spent a few hours over land. We'll probably find out over the next two hours what the speed for any intensification might be.

Did you forget to take your medicine that keeps your ego in check? Take a chill pill. GOES 16 has proven mighty useful this year. Already has paid for itself with the valuable data collected from Harvey, Irma, and now Maria. It is collecting one minute snapshots. The loops will be amazing!

Most of the time, but not with an RIing system.

That discussion had many similarities to the 10 PM CT of Wilma a few hours before the special 2 AM advisory. One for the books.

986 MB measured by dropsonde. NHC estimated it was at 994 MB. Peak FL winds in the NW quad just under 60 knots.

The benefit of living in Norman is one doesn't really have to "go out" per say. Just chill at home till 3-4PM. If it looks like storms may pop, drive an hour. Otherwise, continue on your day.

Sunday is crap. High signal from CIPS of severe from OK up to IA, but the tornado output is almost completely blank. Another good day to sit at home (or near it). Veered LLJ, marginal moisture return in terms of depth, and timing issues.

Cold core in SC/SE KS tomorrow looks good enough for me to chase ATM.

It'll Ben interesting to see what impact, if any, the very warm GOM SSTs have on moisture return.

My concern level is going up for this evening in the Big Country into North Texas. Several high-res models start popping off storms near the warm front. If the HRRR is correct the highest threat will be around the D/FW Metroplex in the middle of a playoff game. Others are a bit further south and west.

I could give you several societal reasons, one of which being we had enough folks die last 12/26 in D/FW from post-Christmas tornadoes. Such desires tend to wane in a hurry after an event like that happens in your backyard. Luckily this upcoming event will likely only feature a few strong wind gusts in my coverage area (Texas).

Storm rolled in about 75 minutes before scheduled kickoff. Game was pushed back 'till 8 PM. Storms quickly moved east and skies were clear and sunny by 6:45 PM. Second round of storms arrived at about 2:30 AM.

This scenario would probably result in a decent severe weather threat for parts of Dixie Alley.

It used to be the same way back on EasternWX many years ago. Not much to talk about in the summer.

I'm considering making the drive up to North Dakota for Friday's setup - but I'm still iffy based on the potential for things to be north of the border and iffy convective initiation potential. Its a 13-14 hour drive up to Grand Forks from Norman so I'll have to decide by about 8 AM this morning to get in position.

Several reliable storm chasers reported a brief cone tornado near the Potter/Oldham county line around 820 PM.

Perhaps instead of cluttering a thread that will undoubtedly go in the archive with an off-topic discussion on sheltering practices, it would be better to just create a separate thread for that?

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