Random Chaos
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Lightning in the eye:
Edited by danielw (Thu Oct 06 2016 05:57 PM)
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JMII
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Darn thing just bounced off Freeport and jogged due west. Hopefully just the eye getting itself back together and not a trend. I've been watching this like a hawk all day and ever single frame of any loop was NW or NNW or slightly N for awhile. This is the first (and only) W motion I've seen. Guess it all averages out but small changes at this range are note worthy.
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Colleen A.
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What does lightning in the eye mean? I'm sure it isn't good, just not sure. Thank you!
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Tazmanian93
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About an hour and a half ago it was about 30 miles E of original forecast point
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Random Chaos
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JMII - pay attention to the motion of the outer, larger eye, not the inner eye. The inner eye is floating around a bit within it and it's harder to track direction.
Colleen - generally when hurricane hunters report lightening in the eyewall, it means significant strengthening. That lightening was coincident to when the big flare up of deep convection occurred out of the inner eyewall on IR. Since then the lightening has died down to only a stroke every 10-20 minutes, and the convection has become more uniform per IR.
The inner eye is staying pretty much the same size, but the outer eyewall is contracting quickly on it. Last three recon's had the outer eyewall at 65, 60, and 50nm respectively, while the inner eye has been around 7 to 8nm.
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Random Chaos
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JMII
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The eye tighten up considerable and the NW motion has resumed. The outer bands are beginning to move thru WPB and where I am in Broward. Anyone got ground reports of winds over 100? I've been watching a buoy near West End Airport at its only reporting 88 mph. That doesn't seem possible given this location is literally in the eyewall right now.
Silly loop shows Matt will be back at almost this same location on Tuesday as a TS 
Hurricane Warning from Boca south has been dropped.
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Looks like the HDOB estimated a 935 MB pressure, Not sure what sort of bias is inherent in the instrument. But it looks like it's deepening a bit more.
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Tazmanian93
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I'd agree with strengthening, watching on Radar, appears the outer eyewall is closing up, with deeper, stronger convection wrapping around inner eyewall
Well but now watching Norcross, radar presentation VERY different
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Edited by Tazmanian93 (Thu Oct 06 2016 09:37 PM)
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SpeedwayCocoa
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It looks like the eye is open to the south....No?
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Tazmanian93
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Hmmmph 10 pm update, 937 mbs, down 2 from the 8pm.
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Tazmanian93
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@Colleen, yes
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