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Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor
      Tue Jul 22 2008 07:58 PM

No, that's an eye there alright -- recon sure confirms it in their vortex reports and microwave satellite imagery show it developing earlier today as well:



Dolly is moving along a gradient of oceanic heat content right now, avoiding a cool eddy to its south and a warm eddy to its north:



It is along these gradients where storms seem to try to intensify at a fairly rapid clip, likely due to the enhanced flux potential the gradients provide. With waters sufficiently warm to provide ample oceanic heat to the storm, the only thing that should constrain Dolly's intensification should be landfall sometime tomorrow very near Brownsville. I'd place my bets in the high-end category 2 range with a little bit of wiggle room in either direction.

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* Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Corpus Christi MikeCAdministrator Tue Jul 22 2008 07:58 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Corpus Christi Storm Hunter   Tue Jul 22 2008 09:05 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Corpus Christi ShanaTX   Tue Jul 22 2008 09:00 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor typhoon_tip   Tue Jul 22 2008 08:35 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor Storm Hunter   Tue Jul 22 2008 08:24 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor Clark   Tue Jul 22 2008 07:58 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor scottsvb   Tue Jul 22 2008 07:23 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor Beaumont, TX   Tue Jul 22 2008 07:11 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor WeatherNut   Tue Jul 22 2008 07:03 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor MikeCAdministrator   Tue Jul 22 2008 05:40 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor Rich B   Tue Jul 22 2008 05:06 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor WeatherNut   Tue Jul 22 2008 03:05 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor cieldumort   Tue Jul 22 2008 02:04 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor MikeCAdministrator   Tue Jul 22 2008 12:58 PM
. * * Re: Dolly Strengthening.. Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor berrywr   Tue Jul 22 2008 12:55 PM
. * * Re: Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor Random Chaos   Tue Jul 22 2008 11:52 AM
. * * Re: Hurricane Warnings Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor cieldumort   Tue Jul 22 2008 08:35 AM
. * * Re: HDOB Wind Speeds Storm Hunter   Tue Jul 22 2008 05:41 AM
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. * * Re: HDOB Wind Speeds cieldumort   Tue Jul 22 2008 03:47 AM
. * * Re: HDOB Wind Speeds scottsvb   Tue Jul 22 2008 03:35 AM
. * * Warnings are UP danielwAdministrator   Tue Jul 22 2008 03:32 AM
. * * HDOB Wind Speeds danielwAdministrator   Tue Jul 22 2008 03:21 AM
. * * Re: Hurricane Watches Up in Texas Brownsville to Port O'Connor cieldumort   Tue Jul 22 2008 02:37 AM
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. * * DOL and LY danielwAdministrator   Mon Jul 21 2008 08:24 PM
. * * Re: Cristobal Out to Sea, Dolly in Gulf, Questions Storm Hunter   Mon Jul 21 2008 07:28 PM
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