#586 Postby aspen » Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:48 pm
This is easily the most impressive IR appearance in the Atlantic since Lorenzo.

Looking at the MPI map, it's no wonder why Teddy is going nuclear. The range of <910 mbar MPIs has expanded northward and Teddy is going right through it. Since the region it's in has a much higher potential than originally expected, and given Teddy's current trends and the surrounding dry air potentially keeping an EWRC at bay, a Cat 5 is looking ever more likely. We aren't even exactly at Dmax yet.

Do we know if the upcoming recon flight is low-level or another dropsonde?
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