NWS Miami Long Range Radar

[Ivanhater]

yep...steve just said its moving wsw and could continue all the way to the coast and said miami is by no means out of the woods

[jax]

bump

[wxwatcher91]

[CronkPSU]

well that thing is certainly now looking better organized, seems to be moving a little faster due west now as well

[ggaryg]

Agreed. Appears to be moving nearly due west, with an occasional west-southwest or west-northwest jog.

Really getting better organized gradually...

[jpigott]

here goes an amatuer observation. . . If you run the mia radar loop it appears as if Katrina keeps on spitting out these vortices which make it appear she is moving faster to the West and then you will see that vortice become part of the circulation and another vortice forms farther east. I thing i have seen that 3 times this morning. Somebody tell me i'm crazy

[Typhoon_Willie]

No you are not crazy jipigott. Looks like a wsw movement again.

[gkrangers]

Due west.

[x-y-no]

LOL ...

Wobble watching, the long-range radar edition.

[gkrangers]

Last night when I went to bed the center was around 26.1N, I think.

Now the center is around 26.1/26.2N.

Due west.

[EDR1222]

It appears on the latest loop that she is moving due west but she also seems to have slowed down quite a bit to almost a crawl. Anyone else seeing this?

[skysummit]

I see a very very slow movement....pretty much due west.

[jasons2k]

Tons of new radar images posted:
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... 6&start=40

[cycloneye]

WTNT52 KNHC 251547
TCEAT2
TROPICAL STORM KATRINA TROPICAL CYCLONE POSITION ESTIMATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
12 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005

AT 12 PM EDT...1600Z... THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM KATRINA
WAS ESTIMATED NEAR LATITUDE 26.2 NORTH...LONGITUDE 79.4 WEST
OR ABOUT 45 MILES EAST OF FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA.

FORECASTER STEWART


West but crawling.

[gkrangers]

Due west, very slow, closed eyewall (or so it appears, recon is the final word on that)

[gkrangers]

If the dry slot to the north fills in, then we may get our hurricane before landfall.

Starting to look like it might be winning the battle with the dry air to the north, but we'll see how it persists.

[deltadog03]

yeah, look at the northern quads...starting to really fill in right now...its starting too look much better

[gkrangers]

Eye and eyewall remain disorganized.

[Sanibel]

Storm has very good look now, however yet another east coast landfaller is ingesting dry air into its fuel mix. This, of course, is good for people in its path.

Surface eye seems to be slightly east of radar image. The storm is moving so slowly that the steering winds under the ridge are probably shearing it ever so slightly.


Katrina's north eyewall should landfall between Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach. Her eye center should landfall just north of Ft Lauderdale near Oakland Park. Katrina should track roughly over the Everglades right down Alligator Alley...

[Sanibel]

The dry slot north of the eye is now arching into the center at an increasing angle. I call this "rip curling" for lack of a better term.


Watch for rapid development now