Rapid intensification is not going to occur until something resembling an eyewall begins to form. There has been no indication of that happening on either the radar or the recon reports, though the last radar image (at 2352 UTC) has something that might be half of a developing eyewall. While the center is underneath the cold cloud tops, the radar indicates that the convection producing those cloud tops is to the south of the center, with not much going on north of the center so far. The system is not very symmetrical yet.
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