Frances has the largest eye I have ever seen.

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Frances has the largest eye I have ever seen.

#1 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:04 pm

It has to be 60-70 miles across.

Never seen anything like it!
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#2 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:05 pm

Radar from that program KAMX shows the eye may begin to start shrinking. Some rain bands are wrapping around it.
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#3 Postby alicia-w » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:05 pm

Dr Lyons said within the last hour or so that it is just that, 60-70 miles across... wow.
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#4 Postby kevin » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:06 pm

A shrinking eye would signify intensification correct??
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#5 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:06 pm

Yes it would.

Also check out the sat floater. You can start to see the eye.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... VIS/20.jpg
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#6 Postby isobar » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:16 pm

The latest vortex said the eye was 30 nm diameter (35 mi). Why such a difference on sat?
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#7 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:17 pm

Well...the eye on sat isnt well defined, but I think the eye on sat is about 30 miles or so across. its definitely not 70 miles across.
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#8 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:25 pm

Houstoner wrote:Well...the eye on sat isnt well defined, but I think the eye on sat is about 30 miles or so across. its definitely not 70 miles across.


The eye isn't well defined on radar, but YOU THINK the eye is ABOUT 30 miles across, but it's DEFINITELY NOT 70 miles across?

:hmm:
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#9 Postby caneman » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:30 pm

Big EZ wrote:
Houstoner wrote:Well...the eye on sat isnt well defined, but I think the eye on sat is about 30 miles or so across. its definitely not 70 miles across.


The eye isn't well defined on radar, but YOU THINK the eye is ABOUT 30 miles across, but it's DEFINITELY NOT 70 miles across?

:hmm:


I think at one put it was that big but slowly consolodating in.
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#10 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:34 pm

I think at one put it was that big but slowly consolodating in


Thats what I was getting at.
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#11 Postby Anonymous » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:35 pm

Oh...
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#12 Postby THead » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:35 pm

it is 60 miles across, i've heard several mets say that here, but they're calling it a center of circulation, not an eye. Also, the western edge of it is only 25 miles off the coast of west palm beach.
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#13 Postby Sanibel » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:48 pm

The first thing that hits me, looking at that ominous giant eye, is that it is a category 2 ghost of the category 5 donut that would have tracked there if not for this slowdown and weakening...
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