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Major Hurricane Irma


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Correct me if I’m wrong but on the GFS at 500mb the NE trof does look stronger then previous runs.  Maybe, just maybe it could pick up the storm just enough that a Florida landfall doesn’t happen... especially if that NE energy trends stronger going forward?

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10 minutes ago, winterymix said:

Even though GFS brings the core across Miami and straddles the coast, the pressure drops a bit

per GFS from around 970 mb to 967 mb. 

I'm not sure what you're looking at. The GFS shows dropping pressures up to landfall and then rising pressures as it rides the coast.

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10:40 p.m.

The U.S. Consulate General in Curaçao says it believes about 6,000 Americans are stranded on St. Martin after Hurricane Irma leveled the Caribbean island.

 
edit: that actually is the right link ^^ must have been filed under the wrong category by the Herald. Either way it's an AP article. 
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I'm reading a few studies, but I still don't know what a large diameter eye means for hurricane strength. If anyone can help me get a conceptual understanding I won't be so lost on reading. 

Example: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006GL027313/full This is a little too scientific for my understanding right now.

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I have been watching the satellite loop as it passes over Little Inagua island (unpopulated?) The satellite view is still extremely organized, with perhaps quite a bit less -75C or -70C cloud tops than a day ago. Still the -60C to -70C cloud tops are over some large areas. So the Dvorak technique should classify this as weaker than this morning or 24 hrs ago, based on critical temperature values. The recon mission #18 got about 120 kt surface and up to 149 kt at flight level. So the flight level wind is still pretty high. Flight level winds were up to 155 and higher yesterday. So it's not a lot less at flight level. Surface level winds may be realistically 110kt to possibly over 120 kt at this moment.

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