NATL: IMELDA - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[syfr]

Imelda is pumping moisture here into EC NC which we really need.

A hurricane on land we *dont* need , but this is welcomed!

[eastcoastFL]

It poured here all morning and then it was sunny and breezy all afternoon. My entire ride from Stuart to Juno was soaked. But it seems like she has become more organized and now the storms are no longer reaching out coast.

[cheezyWXguy]

Imelda’s made a few attempts, albeit unsuccessfully, to establish an inner core today. I think we’ll see that change with dmax tonight. Seems like a good bet to me given the steady pressure drops observed by recon and the development of stronger banding over the last couple of hours.

[Hurricane Mike]

Video on Imelda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDjfptKcgo

[Kazmit]

Looks like Imelda is already a hurricane based on recon.

[cheezyWXguy]

Looks like Imelda is already a hurricane based on recon.

That windfield is bizarre and that has to be one of the loosest pressure gradients I’ve seen on recon in a strengthening system. Gonna need some strong convection over the center tonight to tighten things up.

[cycloneye]

No hurricane yet.

AL, 09, 2025093000, , BEST, 0, 281N, 773W, 55, 985, TS

[Sciencerocks]

[Travorum]

Looks like Imelda is already a hurricane based on recon.

That windfield is bizarre and that has to be one of the loosest pressure gradients I’ve seen on recon in a strengthening system. Gonna need some strong convection over the center tonight to tighten things up.

It's definitely a wacky structure based on recon data, a 987mb and deepening system with no established core, a very broad pressure gradient, and maximum winds a degree and a half north of the center.

[Travorum]

You can see the vortex tilt just comparing the FL wind minimum to the extrap MSLP minimum, there's still a northward vertical tilt:



for reference the first pass here was SW to NE, the second NW to SE.

[emeraldislenc]

This storm looks very weak and I don't see it making it to
A hurricane anytime soon!

[Teban54]

???

[mitchell]

Interesting to see the 0z GFS, rather than spinning the systems around one another, looks more like a solution where the two systems become closer in appearance to one elongated system over the next 72 hours

[WaveBreaking]

???

https://i.imgur.com/UGdXfwe.gif

Hurricane Sandy from Temu

[chaser1]

To suggest that T.S. Imelda looks like crap, would be an insult to crap worldwide
Imelda, prepare to be assimilated

[zhukm29]

What happened…

[KirbyDude25]

What happened…
https://i.ibb.co/mrn5dcmy/IMG-1662.png

And it's not only near hurricane status with a pressure in the low-mid 980s, it's somehow deepening. This storm doesn't make any sense

[kevin]

Looks like it's strongly affected by interaction with Humberto (and of course vice versa). However, as recon has showed the core remains intact and is still deepening so it might only be an appearance issue. A new blob of convection has popped up since the last hour. I wouldn't be surprised if in ~12 hours people will have a similar shocked reaction as now, but then because of how good Imelda suddenly looks. Humberto looks done for though, Imelda defeated the giant.

[Kazmit]

Well, it’s looking better than it did last night, but still quite subtropical. This is gonna be a very weird storm, I don’t know what to expect.

[aspen]

What happened…
https://i.ibb.co/mrn5dcmy/IMG-1662.png

Hurricane models predicted a similar structure on its way to the Carolinas. If those hold up, it should start looking a lot better as it turns away and perhaps makes a run at MH status (very similar to Humberto ‘19).