Rita,Comments,Sat Pics,Models Thread

[dwg71]

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/ ... nhanced+12

eyewall over past 3 hours looks ragged.

[no advance]

No doubt Rita by now is a very heavy storm. I checked all the models they are all showing a stall even retrograde SW. So I wish all Texans alot of luck. The drought is over.

[oneness]

[Ivanhater]

last image 1302 shows clouds cooling and expanding around the eye

[DLI2k5]

Could this be the beginning of the intensification process after that longggg ERC?

[DLI2k5]

Could this be the beginning of the intensification process after that longggg ERC?

[oneness]

[CronkPSU]

Could this be the beginning of the intensification process after that longggg ERC?

maybe, not even sure Derek or the NHC guys know what will happen after this ERC is over, just happy it is going over relatively cooler waters

[oneness]

[cjrciadt]

Noon models

[cjrciadt]

If you cant tell anything here is a sum up:
The BAMM models loop back into the GOM in 4 days.
The NGPI stays over texas for the next 3 days.
The others models are still stir crazy.

[oneness]

Doppler Radar Loop of SE LA with heavy feeders right up to just south of NO.

http://www.wwltv.com/weather/pinpoint-640a.html

[CronkPSU]

ugh that wacky LBAR and I think that is a BAMM are making that map unreadable by psuhing into Nova Scotia in like 5 days

[oneness]

[tw861]

On the latest RGB image it appears that the eye is becoming better defined again. Although could be just because the sun has risen to a higher angle. Either way that eye doen't look too bad.

[oneness]

Should be able to see GOM through it though, so still not ramping up much. IR is less funky but still not clean. Western core banding rebuilding. It's going to be a big core if it rebuilds fully even if the eye is on the small side.

[fwbbreeze]

looking at the last few frames on the visible satellite it doesnt appear Rita is in a hurry to move anywhere!! appears to me to have slowed a bit.

http://weather.cod.edu/analysis/loops/s ... s&type=vis

fwbbreeze

[oneness]

Not moving much on radar either. Can see the GOM in the eye with this one.

[mattpetre]

Why don't any of the weather sites put up loops IR/Vis/WV of the entire storm life cycle? I know they may put greater burden on the servers, but there is so much knowledge to be gained from such a presentation of the storm. I have been thinking about creating my own long loop if anyone knows where I can find sattelite archive images. Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to plan ahead on the next storm and start saving images locally. Does anyone else see the value in such a product? It would tell us so much about relative intensities at a given time.

[azskyman]

Wobbles of course still taking place, but the last few frames seem to show a trend much more north than west. Too early to tell if this is a true course correction.

Rainband development seems to be hanging on in the NOLA area and other parishes south of there...which also supports to a small degree the idea that Rita is not moving west and yet clearing away from those parishes.