StrmTrckrMiami
(Weather Guru)
Sat Aug 18 2007 12:35 AM
Re: Dean

That does look strangly odd. I am not too sure about if it can form a new storm or not, but I do know that according to
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/3299.php?from=91170
that outer rainbands can form a new eye wall around the existing one. Maybe that is what Dean is doing? But the sataline images do seem something out of the ordinary than what I have ever seen.

Here is the link for the hurricane eyewall replacement cycle

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/uow-hcf022307.php