KATFIVE
(Weather Watcher)
Thu Sep 22 2005 12:40 AM
Re: houston we have a problem

you bring up the million dollar question. The way this thing is spinning up, I wonder how quickly it will spin down when there is still warm water beyond the Loop. So if this thing gets up to 185 mph and near record central pressure, is there a basics physics question as to how quickly it can deaccelerate absent cool water or dry air entrainment or some very timely EWRC. In the case of KAT, there was a bit of deacceleration, but the storm surge was not immediately responsive to the relative weakening to say the least.


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