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Something strange is going on with Dean...

A Major Hurricane with 145mph winds should be more symmetrical than Dean is.
The latest IR loop from GHCC shows some strange Vortice swirls spinning off of the Eye.
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconusir.html

And the latest Dvorak enhancement shows that Dean has lost nearly 70% of his higher cloud tops over the last few hours.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/bd-l.jpg

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That's odd... as best I can tell, it doesn't appear to be an issue of cooler SST's, shear or dry air.... And I'm naturally going to defer to Clark that an ERC is still several hours away....

Perhaps a diurnal fluctuation?

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Allison

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