Tropical Storm Chris

[stormie_skies]

He sure is nice and round, isn't he? So many storms at this level of intensification are pathetically lopsided.....

[skysummit]

Ok people....seriously it's NOT an eye. It's the angle of the sun giving shadows off of higher cloud tops near the center. Argue if you like...but it's NOT an eye.

[cycloneye]

A new Vortex Message shortly.Let's see if the pressure has dropped since the last fix.

[Stratusxpeye]

Eyes don't usually become visible on satellites until the mid-to-upper range of cat 1. We still have 25-30mph of intensification until we should be expecting one to develop. So... it's not an eye.

Not really remember hurrican katrina? Right before southeast florida landfall was a ts with a well devolped center and eye. All depends on the storm.

[dwg71]

He sure is nice and round, isn't he? So many storms at this level of intensification are pathetically lopsided.....

actually he is pretty lopsided - most of convection and windfield is NE and E sides.

[mtm4319]

I'm here when you need to hand things over.

[Pebbles]

Now would be the time of day if any for Chris to have a little pick me up after it's stumble earlier this afternoon. Those outflow boundries are really noticable now on that shot you have there. They getting pretty far away from the storm now though.

P.S. I still don't see an eye.. but that doesn't mean one couldn't 'pop' soon. The ups and down of tracking storms intently makes things interesting. Walk away for a few hours and things surely will change. Gotta luv mother nature.. chaos at it's best.

[Extremeweatherguy]

now look at it:

[Aquawind]

Ok people....seriously it's NOT an eye. It's the angle of the sun giving shadows off of higher cloud tops near the center. Argue if you like...but it's NOT an eye.

LOL.. THey stopped that arguement.. Now it's becoming an eye.. Yet some say it might not even be strengthening from the 60mph.

[f5]

Eyes don't usually become visible on satellites until the mid-to-upper range of cat 1. We still have 25-30mph of intensification until we should be expecting one to develop. So... it's not an eye.

Not really remember hurrican katrina? Right before southeast florida landfall was a ts with a well devolped center and eye. All depends on the storm.

Katrina had a beautiful eye much like isabel had

[mtm4319]

now look at it:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/vis.jpg

Did someone drop an atomic bomb in the center?

[deltadog03]

its prolly not an eye yet!! BUT** he is getting his act together rather quickly.. the shear from the TUTT is really starting to slacken.

[Damar91]

Ok, it's pretty obvious with that last shot that it's not an eye, but what is that. It looks weird in the middle, or is it just the way the sun is reflecting off the clouds?

[whereverwx]

I figured some of you missed these... so here you go; this is a visible loop from 1915Z this morning (12 hours). Oh, and there are two thumbnails instead, because the bandwidth limit will probably be exceeded pretty quickly.

Here, also, this is an AVN loop from 1915Z this morning. Again, there are two thumbnails instead, because the bandwidth limit will probably be exceeded pretty quickly.

[skysummit]

Thanks EWG....that clearly shows that center thunderstorm top is expanding and it was not an eye, nor was it one forming.

[MiamiensisWx]

503
SXXX50 KNHC 022146
AF308 0303A CHRIS HDOB 32 KNHC
2134. 1959N 06421W 01529 0053 083 015 218 132 018 01622 0000000000
2135 1957N 06421W 01519 0049 078 016 222 124 016 01609 0000000000
2135. 1955N 06421W 01518 0046 080 015 224 126 016 01605 0000000000
2136 1954N 06420W 01523 0044 077 015 228 120 017 01608 0000000000
2136. 1952N 06420W 01525 0043 065 012 230 122 013 01609 0000000000
2137 1950N 06420W 01506 0039 059 012 232 122 013 01585 0000000000
2137. 1949N 06419W 01527 0036 065 012 230 120 013 01604 0000000000
2138 1947N 06418W 01529 0035 044 009 230 118 012 01605 0000000000
2138. 1946N 06417W 01520 0035 031 010 232 118 011 01595 0000000000
2139 1944N 06416W 01518 0037 002 013 230 122 015 01595 0000000000
2139. 1943N 06417W 01566 0042 350 018 230 118 022 01649 0000000000
2140 1943N 06419W 01577 0044 007 016 228 120 018 01663 0000000000
2140. 1944N 06419W 01578 0042 040 015 234 110 017 01661 0000000000
2141 1946N 06420W 01528 0040 047 012 238 112 013 01609 0000000000
2141. 1947N 06421W 01515 0040 040 013 238 114 014 01596 0000000000
2142 1948N 06423W 01527 0043 047 012 234 120 015 01610 0000000000
2142. 1949N 06424W 01536 0045 036 016 228 124 018 01622 0000000000
2143 1950N 06426W 01536 0047 025 022 216 132 022 01624 0000000000
2143. 1951N 06427W 01555 0048 028 020 220 130 020 01644 0000000000
2144 1952N 06428W 01523 0051 032 024 216 132 025 01615 0000000000

[Damar91]

now look at it:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/vis.jpg

Did someone drop an atomic bomb in the center?

Hmmmm......

[Pebbles]

looks like a second outflow boundary has just been spit out of this, so I am not entirely sure this is intensifying

Oh I must go pull up the HQ sat loop and look again now.. blah.. i posted before i saw your post Derek...

Edit... humm see now i noticed that a couple hours ago (i think i'm on the same one as what your talking about "2nd" )... you think that still close enough to interupt the storm a little? I was thinking it was far enough away that chris may have this prime time to before sunset to flare up some storms and perk up a little.

[WindRunner]

I'm here when you need to hand things over.

Perfect timing. I'll upload the image and file now.

[Aquawind]

I thinks it's trying to expand while the core is intensifying ATM.. It has tried all day and gotten a tad bigger, but the dry air shear is inhibiting the whole process..