1900hurricane wrote:Probably due to the dry air intrusion, pressure is back up almost 10 mb. SFMR barely supports a hurricane now too.
Agreed, Dorian definitely does not look like a rapidly strengthening storm at the moment. Aside from the obvious dry slot cutting into its core, another clear sign that Dorian has leveled off is the blob of convection to the ESE of the center. Seeing feeder bands contain deeper convection than the core of the storm itself tends to suggest pretty strongly it still needs quite a bit of work to really get itself together. And that could be a bad thing, since it might mean that Dorian could hold off on RI until closer to the coast, making it less prone to pre-landfall ERCs.