Random Chaos
(Weather Analyst)
Sun Sep 02 2007 01:03 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia

Extremely good IR presentation. The eye has become very well defined on both IR and Visible in the last couple hours. Recon is in the storm now and released a dropsonde about a half hour ago; we should get a vortex recon soon.

Modis overpass should be posted in about 3 hours (it will be from 17:45Z) on the rapidfire gallery. Might get a really good high res visible of the storm from that.

I expect a major hurricane at the 2pm update.

Edit: Recon just passed through the eyewall and found 122kt Flight Level winds (10-second average from HDOB data). Downshifted to surface (90%) brings it in at 126mph surface winds, or a strong Category 3 storm. We will see if NHC upgrades it soon.


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