Rita: TS to category 3 in 18 hours

[oneness]

This is Rita ... but it is about what Katrina looked like ... just before she shot up to cat 5 ... note the large meso vortices that have formed in the eye.

[NorthGaWeather]

Rita: 24.1 83.2 = 100 knots
Katrina: 25.0 86.2 = 100 knots

Rocket science, right?

Whats your point. Katrina was 3 degrees further left? WOW!

Katrina was a 60 knots tropical storm at 3PM EDT on 8/25. At 11PM EDT on 8/28 Katrina was at 100 knots, an increase of 40 knots over 80 hours.

Rita was a 60 knot tropical storm at 8AM EDT on 9/20. At 2AM on 9/21 Rita was at 100 knots, an increase of 40 knots over 18 hours.

At this point Rita is roughly 180 miles east and 50 miles south of Katrina, and MUCH earlier in her lifecyle. Not only that, Rita is projected to make landfall well to the west of Katrina, will be over warm waters longer, has similar climatic conditions, and is moving considerably faster.

Rocket science, right?

(That's right, I'm a rocket scientist. It takes that kind of deductive reasoning to assume that Rita might actually rival Katrina in intensity. And I'm a monkey's uncle, too. Or is is we are just related? Oh well, relationships aren't everything...)

I think we actually agree in some ways. Your pretty arrogant eh.

[SkeetoBite]

Hmmm, I never finished school so I have no professional qualifications, nor am I a rocket scientist. Then again, all you need is a set of eyes and just over 1.5 ounces of grey matter to see the differences in this image...

[mtm4319]

Hmmm, I never finished school so I have no professional qualifications, nor am I a rocket scientist. Then again, all you need is a set of eyes and just over 1.5 ounces of grey matter to see the differences in this image...

I think all I need is one eye -- and it's right in front of me.

[oneness]

Hmmm, I never finished school so I have no professional qualifications, nor am I a rocket scientist. Then again, all you need is a set of eyes and just over 1.5 ounces of grey matter to see the differences in this image...

Yeah, one is night IR, and the other is visible daylight and are at different scales.

[loon]

Hmmm, I never finished school so I have no professional qualifications, nor am I a rocket scientist. Then again, all you need is a set of eyes and just over 1.5 ounces of grey matter to see the differences in this image...

Yeah, one is night IR, and the other is visible daylight and are at different scales.

AWWW you caught on....now your ruined skeetobite's thunder...*sigh*...way to go!

[oneness]

LOL

[mtm4319]

Yeah, one is night IR, and the other is visible daylight and are at different scales.

Hmm, you have a point on the night vs. day difference, but Rita has an eye on both IR and visible, and has an eye on the GOES EAST Atlantic IR (which is zoomed out to about 50 degrees wide).

[oneness]

I was referring to the images of Katrina, as she began to rapidly ramp up and eye opened ... and large meso vortices appeared during the rapid strengthening phase ... which is why I pointed them out when I made this comparison.

[SkeetoBite]

Yeah, I guess he showed me. I feel violated.

Rita at this position: INITIAL 21/0900Z 24.3N 84.6W 105 KT
Link to data

Katrina at this position: INITIAL 26/2100Z 24.8N 82.9W 85 KT
Link to data

Hmmm, clear eye, one CAT higher. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong but there seems to be more of a difference than visible light and IR.

I don't usually post in the comment threads because of garbage reply posts like that. Do your own homework before making smartass comments about people who actually work on this stuff night and day.

[oneness]

You need to get some sleep so you are less pretentious

[SkeetoBite]

You need to get some sleep so you are less pretentious

LOL - real loud, oops just woke someone up... thanks alot

[oneness]

sorry man - peace