supercane4867 wrote:Linda was one of the only two hurricanes to reach T8.0 on objective Dvorak analysis which topped the scale, another one was Gilbert in the Atlantic side
Something that would be interesting to compile would be warmest eye temperatures in each of these "most powerful" tropical cyclones and then compare that.
somethingfunny wrote:I hope we can get rapid scan satellite running for Marie's intensification!
Ditto.
Yellow Evan wrote:ATCF revised down to 50 knts.
EP, 13, 2014082218, , BEST, 0, 132N, 1030W, 50, 1000, TS, 34, NEQ, 70, 30, 0, 70, 1012, 200, 20, 0, 0, E, 0, , 0, 0, MARIE, D,
EP, 13, 2014082218, , BEST, 0, 132N, 1030W, 50, 1000, TS, 50, NEQ, 30, 0, 0, 30, 1012, 200, 20, 0, 0, E, 0, , 0, 0, MARIE, D,
Ouch. This was when Marie's appearance
relating to the CDO started to degrade instead of rapidly swirl into an eye like Rick 09. The experts thought like all of us that around 10:00 am EDT the eye was in the process of showing up but it did that stupid delay (another burst took over) we often see so they realized 55 knots wasn't quite on tap. This was around 18:45 UTC (image King posted).
Yellow Evan wrote:I think it may be in a slight phase of unarrested development right now. Still intensifying, but has a bit more banding than I'm use to.
Did you mean arrested development? That's what it really was last afternoon, which makes me irate

. That would prompt me to lower the chances of EI slightly by 10% but it will likely still occur; I tend to rate it higher if there were no "mini-failures" to launch. % chance of RI remains the same in my mind.
For old time's sake, this would be a good time to post my thoughts on % chances for Marie (haven't done this in years

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First % chance of Tropical Storm Marie becoming a:Tropical Depression: 100%
Tropical Storm: 100%
Hurricane: 99%
Category 2 Hurricane: 96%
Category 3 Hurricane: 85%
Category 4 Hurricane: 75%
Category 5 Hurricane: 47%
Windspeeds of around 150 knots: 38%
Windspeeds of around 160 knots: 12%
Windspeeds of around 170 knots: 1%
First % chance of Tropical Storm Marie strengthening (stacking):Very slowly/None: 0.3%
Slowly: 15%
Moderately: 25%
Quickly: 50%
Rapidly: 80%
Very Rapidly: 67%
Record Breaking Rapid: 1.3%
This is
not from any program or scientific formula, this is just my thoughts alone on the %'s and within it's lifetime,
not within a specific time (such as 24-48 hours).