aspen wrote:The eye has shrunk quite a lot over the last few hours, and the CDO isn’t quite as smooth on visible as before. Dunno if it’s just a temporary structural quirk as it contracts and intensifies, or if it’s indicative of an EWRC on the horizon. The current structure of a small eye and gigantic outer band is quite conducive for one to occur at some point.
It's slowly undergoing an EWRC.
This first signal came about 13:00Z when an eyedrop from recon measured a drop in relative humidity at 850mb from 99% to less than 60%.
Physical indications usually shows up many hours later, like what you are seeing. One of the last indications will be a double wind maxima recoding from recon.