Can Anyone Say Annular????

[ConvergenceZone]

Derek Ortt just mentioned the classic annular shape in his latest forecast. It seems very ominous now. I think I'm going to hit the bed in about an hour. It's going to be a longggg day tomorrow. I'll be glued to the computer and TV.

I've always told myself that if I won the lottery, I'd quit work, fly east and spend the summers/falls just volunteering for hurricane cleanup. I feel so blessed that I live where I do, in spite of the boring weather.

[Windy]

Here is a technical article about annular hurricanes:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~kossin/articles/annularhurr.pdf

[Scorpion]

I am literally shaking in my boots from this information. The mixture of dread and excitement about what is about to happen is too taxing on my nervous system. This is just incredible. This has never happened to me before from a hurricane.

[PTrackerLA]

Not sleeping well tonight . This truly looks to transitioning into an annular hurricane. Cat 5. is a distinct possibility IMO. I'm hoping she will stay east of here but I can't believe what might happen in New Orleans.

[jasons2k]

Yes, after reading Derek's forecast the hair on my neck stood up. That has never happened to me before. Praying for N.O.

[ConvergenceZone]

according to the latest discussion, the wind field has expanded yet again.
Check out just how much covers area covers hurricane force winds.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tr ... _wind.html

[otowntiger]

she is apparantly annular now. Unless some miraculous weakening occurs just prior to landfall as has been the case with so many of these storm lately, this definitely looks to be the absolute worst case scenario for a hurricane to hit the US, period. I never use these ridiculous and overused emoticons but if there was ever an appropriate time this is it!!!!!

[Big-Iguana]

When I woke up and looked at Katrina, annular came to mind based on what I saw. Time will tell, albiet we don't have much of that time left, in any event Katrina may well be what will trigger economic collapse considering Greenspan's latest comments, oil infrastucture getting wiped out, extensive costs from storm damage, agricultural destruction near to harvest, etc. This storm is an achilles heal blow and coming at one of the worst times.

It's not just Nola that will suffer from massive destruction, but the whole US economy. So pray hard she drops intensity, pray like you never had before...may God help us all.

[Mac]

It appeared quite obvious to me that she was going to become annular as early as yesterday, around noon or so. I posted in one of the threads about it, although I cannot now recall which thread it was.

[storms in NC]

Bump up

[canegrl04]

Has there ever been a cat 5 hurricane this large in circumfrence? I know Camille was a tiny cane

[cjrciadt]

Has there ever been a cat 5 hurricane this large in circumfrence? I know Camille was a tiny cane

Camille was this almost in the exact spot of Katrina this second.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/hurricane-camille.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/&h=720&w=1152&sz=329&tbnid=sB6LCA1QhXcJ:&tbnh=93&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhurricane%2Bcamille%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D&oi=imagesr&start=2