Was Hurricane Andrew Close to Being Annular?
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:25 pm
Before this gets any heat, let me explain what I'm getting at. I was browsing some imagery on a weather site I just found and it happened to have some strange IR archived images for Hurricane Andrew and other products like floaters. I was viewing some for early August 24 just before Andrew made landfall and interestingly enough:
Seems like there aren't any rain bands. At 6:00 UTC, Andrew looks like a perfect circle. Could this mean Andrew was close to being an annular storm? This might help explain why it behaved like it did (not weakening very much during passage, mini swirls occurring within eyewall, etc.) Keep in mind Hurricane Carlos was called an annular hurricane by the NHC when it didn't look like one, Hurricane Andrew looked way more so than Carlos ever did IMO. There is so much talk over this hurricane so it's puzzling as to why it's never been brought up before.
Seems like there aren't any rain bands. At 6:00 UTC, Andrew looks like a perfect circle. Could this mean Andrew was close to being an annular storm? This might help explain why it behaved like it did (not weakening very much during passage, mini swirls occurring within eyewall, etc.) Keep in mind Hurricane Carlos was called an annular hurricane by the NHC when it didn't look like one, Hurricane Andrew looked way more so than Carlos ever did IMO. There is so much talk over this hurricane so it's puzzling as to why it's never been brought up before.