| Thunderbird12 |
| (Meteorologist) |
| Mon Sep 19 2005 11:37 PM |
Re: Recon
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The aircraft was recently in the NW quadrant and only measured 59 knot flight-level winds. There is simply no evidence that this is a hurricane right now. In fact, there is no evidence yet from the current recon flight that it is even a 60 kt tropical storm, with the plane having been in the SE and NW quadrants so far. The system does have a radius of tropical storm force winds up to 120 miles from the center, but the inner core is still something of a mess.