Hurricane Dean - HRD Windfield objective analysis

[Recurve]

This is the wind field map from the NOAA AOML/Hurricane Research Division for Dean. Link to the page:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/dean2007/wind.html

These are expected to be issued twice a day, current conditions, not forecasts.

This is the max zoom. There are two other views.



Notice the eneregy and Destructive Potential in the chart legend. Destructive index is like S-S scale, but goes to 6 in tenths AFAIK, so there can be values of 4.9 and 5.9 and so on. This one has Wind damage potential of 5.0 and Wave damage potential of 4.0. as of 3:30 am EDT today.

I have not seen this elsewhere. If this is a duplicate or in the wrong place, mods please delete.

[tallywx]

You can actually get more frequent updates (e.g. from every complete pass through the eye) from the FTP directory:

ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/hwind/2007/AL042007/

e.g. here is the close-up image from 1330z: