Random Chaos
(Weather Analyst)
Fri Aug 17 2007 07:37 PM
Re: honeymoon

Here is some recon data:

232830 1500N 06511W 6989 02836 9990 +077 +999 052123 127 091 055 05
232900 1459N 06510W 6942 02844 9990 +079 +999 048126 130 093 063 01
232930 1457N 06509W 6965 02765 9990 +094 +999 043093 110 121 022 05
233000 1456N 06508W 6990 02692 9525 +133 +133 036070 077 123 014 03

Please tell me if I am interpreting this wrong, but it looks to me that they found flight level winds up to 126 knots (30-sec average) and surface winds up to 123 knots (10 second average).

This might not be a pass through the center, either. Not sure the exact location of the plane vs the vortex, but it has to be somewhere close.