HRD Isabel Landfall Wind Analysis is Online!

[wxman57]

I've been checking the Hurricane Research Division's web site, and see that they JUST put up the 1630Z (2 hours ago) wind analysis of Isabel as the center reached the coast. Max sustained 1-minute winds at landfall were 82kts, 47 nautical miles NE of the center. Note how the 65 kt winds do not penetrate inland at all. They just stop right at the beaches. Here's the 4-deg latitude image:

ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/hwind/2 ... ol4deg.png

Here's the 2-deg map for 1630Z today:
ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/hwind/2 ... ol2deg.png

You can go to their main web site and look at other images along Isabel's track:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_page ... /wind.html

But compare today's image to what Isabel was last week:
ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/hwind/2 ... ol4deg.png

You east coasters can be thankful you didn't have to go through Isabel when she was at her strongest.

P.S. Here's a new picture of Isabel at landfall:
http://terra.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/imag ... _1000m.jpg

[paradoxsixnine]

Wow, that's pretty, but not beautiful like that phenomenom (sp?) days ago! She really let herself go, that one...