Interesting swirl of clouds. Image servers appear to be down so I can't upload the sat / rads I have.

System is sitting between southerly flow from the Atlantic Ridge and northerly flow from the NE Mexico ridge. Prime location for a spin up. I saw a pressure of 1008 mb earlier near Veracruz,MX. Buoys in that region were just slightly above their lowest pressure when Helene was in the area. So the pressures are low to begin with.
Earlier long range Brownsville,TX NWS radar was showing an eye-like feature about 180 to 200 miles SSE of Brownsville,Tx