Humberto is looking good on all views. Radar is showing the convection continuing to wrap. Dvorak IR view looks to me somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5 with the Ramdis Digital Dvorak reading about 4.5. Need to wait 3 hours to get the official SSD update of the Dvorak reading. The last few visible satellite images showed what look to be some high towers forming near the core of the storm, but they aren't showing up on IR yet.

My personal feeling is that this is going to continue to strengthen all the way until landfall. Since it is so close to shore and moving slowly, as has been stated, significant rain is the biggest threat.

Edit: Here is Humberto about 20 minutes before Recon passed through: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realt...5170000.1km.jpg

--RC
Hobbiest (I'm not a pro).