Yeah, I agree on how the tops significantly warmed just prior to landfall. There were only oranges and yellows... but the sat. images overnight had it looking wilma-esque.

I have a question. Is it a fairly rare event to have a trop. cyclone form between panama and nicaragua?? It kinda seems a little weird to have one form there.

By the way, 92L looks a lot more convective approaching the antilles. It seems to have reformed more to the west and it looks much better on floater 2.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float2-vis-loop.html