I concur...probably quite a bit more than that, too. Check the 37GHz satellite product from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) at the NRL site. Note that the 37GHz product is sensitive to liquid water content and rainfall -- thus, the image you're seeing can be viewed as somewhat akin to a poor man's radar image. That depiction is not unlike what you see with many strong tropical storms or weak hurricanes and not terribly unlike that seen with Vince. The wind field is certainly there, per QuikSCAT, for a moderate tropical storm at least. The satellite appearance of this one continues to improve, both on infrared and microwave imagery, and has done so to the point that I will be quite surprised not to see Delta at 10p.
And to answer the follow-up question -- no threat at all to the US or any other land mass. Maybe in a week to 10 days, whatever is left of it will be part of some extratropical system impacting the Azores or Europe, but that's not likely to be anything more than they typically see from midlatitude weather systems.
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