Thunderbird12
(Meteorologist)
Sun Sep 02 2007 10:38 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!

Felix may be peaking or close to peaking for now... there has been some definite warming of cloud tops in the CDO in the last hour or so. It'll be interesting to see what the next plane finds in there.

As Storm Hunter pointed above, the last plane lingered in the eye for several minutes after taking a beating in the eyewall. I don't know if there was any meteorological reason for that... it may have been a case of the recon crew regrouping in the relative calm of the eye.



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