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CoconutCandy
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Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!
Sun Sep 02 2007 09:33 PM

I'm Majorly Impressed, pun Intended.

In my last post at 8am EDT, when Felix was still at Cat 2, I surmised that I might wake up to a Cat 3. (I'm 6 hours behind Florida.)

But it was already an impressive Cat 4. And now, a mere 12 hours after that post, we have a very intense Cat 5! that shows no signs of slowing in it's intensification.

If memory serves me, we had just another 'ho-hum' Invest-94, just east of the Caribbean, that most models were not even picking up on, let alone prognosticating a full-blown massive Category 5 Hurricane in just over 50 hours!

I'm a little surprised by the central pressures all along with this storm. Felix went from TD-6 to a Cat 1 hurricane in 27 hours, with a drop of *only* 15 millibars. Hmmm ... How is this possible?

And the most current dropsonde reports back 936mb, which 'normally' equates with a low-end Cat 4. Cat 5's 'start' at around 920mb and lower.

Usually, the pressures drop first and the winds follow suit. Here, it would appear that Felix is displaying the opposite. And Mike has mentioned that the radius of Hurricane force winds only extend out 25 miles or so, which seems to many of us rather unusual.

I'm wondering if these two peculiarities are related or intertwined in some way? Feel free chime in and add your thoughts on all this, please. This is very curious to me. We still have much to learn about rapid intensification! ala 'Charlie' and 'Flossie', etc.

Felix is awesomely impressive in itself, but the fact it really roughed up the Recon crew to the extent that they had to abort their mission speaks volumes.

Not in my memory of watching storms over many years, do I recall a Recon team that had to call it quits and retreat to homebase with a dented plane from the graupel blasting and a shaken crew from the extreme turbulence.

I think Felix may well have a few more tricks up his sleeve, which will be played out for all the world to see, in the coming days. Hold on for *this* ride, and pray that the ridge remains intact!

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Watching Category FIVE Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	MikeC	Sun Sep 02 2007 09:33 PM
Re: Vortex	LoisCane	Mon Sep 03 2007 05:18 PM
Re: Vortex	scottsvb	Mon Sep 03 2007 11:32 AM
Re: Vortex	nc_tropical_wx79	Mon Sep 03 2007 10:42 AM
Re: Vortex	LoisCane	Mon Sep 03 2007 10:13 AM
Re: Vortex	doug	Mon Sep 03 2007 09:57 AM
Re: Vortex	Random Chaos	Mon Sep 03 2007 08:35 AM
Re: Vortex	LoisCane	Mon Sep 03 2007 08:30 AM
Re: Vortex	Random Chaos	Mon Sep 03 2007 08:21 AM
Re: Vortex	dem05	Mon Sep 03 2007 04:56 AM
Re: Vortex	Storm Hunter	Mon Sep 03 2007 03:04 AM
Re: Vortex	Storm Hunter	Mon Sep 03 2007 02:16 AM
Vortex	danielw	Mon Sep 03 2007 02:10 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	Storm Hunter	Mon Sep 03 2007 01:53 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	ltpat228	Mon Sep 03 2007 01:51 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	LoisCane	Mon Sep 03 2007 01:44 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	Random Chaos	Mon Sep 03 2007 01:40 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	LoisCane	Mon Sep 03 2007 01:31 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	typhoon_tip	Mon Sep 03 2007 01:03 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	Random Chaos	Mon Sep 03 2007 12:55 AM
Re: NHC Discussion	LoisCane	Mon Sep 03 2007 12:11 AM
NHC Discussion	danielw	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:44 PM
Area off the GA Coast	danielw	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:41 PM
Re: Felix	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:40 PM
Re: Felix	Clark	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:32 PM
Re: Felix	JY381	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:27 PM
Re: Felix	flahurricane	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:17 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 11:02 PM
Re: Felix	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:55 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:50 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	lunkerhunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:48 PM
Re: dvorak keeps changing	weather999	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:48 PM
Re: Felix	Clark	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:47 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	Thunderbird12	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:38 PM
Felix	danielw	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:37 PM
Re: dvorak keeps changing	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:36 PM
dvorak keeps changing	LoisCane	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:29 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:14 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	LoisCane	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:13 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	Random Chaos	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:03 PM
annular	HanKFranK	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:02 PM
Re: Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	weather999	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:00 PM
Fierce Felix now at Cat 5 - Recon ABORTED!	CoconutCandy	Sun Sep 02 2007 09:33 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	LoisCane	Sun Sep 02 2007 09:29 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 09:09 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Lysis	Sun Sep 02 2007 09:08 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:56 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	punkyg	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:47 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	MikeC	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:45 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:35 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:32 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:32 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Thunderbird12	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:11 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	lunkerhunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:04 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	flahurricane	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:03 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	weather999	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:02 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Sun Sep 02 2007 07:57 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	LoisCane	Sun Sep 02 2007 07:23 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Thunderbird12	Sun Sep 02 2007 07:21 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	nc_tropical_wx79	Sun Sep 02 2007 07:18 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	weatherguy08	Sun Sep 02 2007 07:06 PM
Re: Watching Category 4 Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	allan	Sun Sep 02 2007 06:42 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	weatherguy08	Sun Sep 02 2007 05:47 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Clark	Sun Sep 02 2007 05:47 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	HanKFranK	Sun Sep 02 2007 05:09 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Thunderbird12	Sun Sep 02 2007 05:05 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	allan	Sun Sep 02 2007 05:03 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	flahurricane	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:53 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	DougBaker	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:48 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:31 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:22 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	StrmTrckrMiami	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:21 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	danielw	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:19 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Lee-Delray	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:18 PM
Re: what about the system off the Georgia coast?	StrmTrckrMiami	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:17 PM
Re: what about the system off the Georgia coast?	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:17 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Climate Aficionado	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:13 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Raymond	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:11 PM
what about the system off the Georgia coast?	vineyardsaker	Sun Sep 02 2007 04:05 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	StrmTrckrMiami	Sun Sep 02 2007 03:42 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 03:38 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Random Chaos	Sun Sep 02 2007 03:19 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Storm Hunter	Sun Sep 02 2007 03:05 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	typhoon_tip	Sun Sep 02 2007 01:54 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Random Chaos	Sun Sep 02 2007 01:54 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	flhurricane	Sun Sep 02 2007 01:51 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	cieldumort	Sun Sep 02 2007 01:49 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Random Chaos	Sun Sep 02 2007 01:03 PM
Re: Watching Hurricane Felix and Area off Georgia	Raymond	Sun Sep 02 2007 12:54 PM
Re: Felix Strengthens to Solid Cat 2 Hurricane	scottsvb	Sun Sep 02 2007 12:23 PM
Re: Felix Strengthens to Solid Cat 2 Hurricane	Ron Basso	Sun Sep 02 2007 12:04 PM
Re: Felix Strengthens to Solid Cat 2 Hurricane	Beaumont, TX	Sun Sep 02 2007 10:26 AM
Felix Strengthens to Solid Cat 2 Hurricane	CoconutCandy	Sun Sep 02 2007 08:00 AM

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