| Thunderbird12 |
| (Meteorologist) |
| Wed Oct 19 2005 06:19 AM |
Re: Wilma Becomes Category 5 Hurricane
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I have never seen cloud tops as cold as they got with Wilma in a symmetric hurricane (I generally only pay attention to the Atlantic storms). Occasionally you will see that in sheared or developing systems were convection is strongly favored on a particular side of the system, but to see symmetric cloud tops of -85C combined with a pinhole eye suggests about as rapid of intensification as you can get. It isn't looking quite as good now, though the convection is still very cold.