New eyewall underway?

[dixiebreeze]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... IR4/20.jpg

Anyone have a clue?

[JtSmarts]

I asked about this earlier because I thought I saw two eyes on radar. Anyway its getting too late to matter.

[huricanwatcher]

CNN is talking about it.. its trying to make another eyewall but it will disappear as it gets closer to land... not going tohappen

[THead]

Something wrong with that site, showing the 0000z pic, she looks alot better now on the 0215 pic i saw there a few minutes ago.

[dixiebreeze]

Something wrong with that site, showing the 0000z pic, she looks alot better now on the 0215 pic i saw there a few minutes ago.

I agree, looks like she's intensifying somewhat

[JtSmarts]

Do you have a link to the 0215 pic Thead?

[feederband]

Is it hooking left....

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... klch.shtml

[AL Chili Pepper]

Look at the flareup to the west! Get on land now!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html

[JtSmarts]

Look at the flareup to the west! Get on land now!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html

Is it just me or is that link real jumpy.

[AL Chili Pepper]

Look at the flareup to the west! Get on land now!

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html

Is it just me or is that link real jumpy.

Yeah, just disable the last frame.

[THead]

0000z IR



0215

[JtSmarts]

0000z IR



0215

Thanks Thead

[THead]

No problem. If anyone wants, I have been collecting some images of Rita, will put them in a site later, but you can browse through them here:

http://hummer63.dyndns.org/katrina2/rita

Also have a site for Katrina, if you want to make some comparisons.

http://hummer63.dyndns.org/katrina2

[THead]

Wow thats cold on the NW side, and coming ashore, that was 45 minutes ago.....

[curtadams]

Those pictures are very misleading. Cold indicates very high clouds - but not necessarily that the cause of the clouds is directly underneath. Rita has a very intense N inner eyewall - and virtually no S inner eyewall That blowup of convection doesn't result from convection underneath - it's the convection from that inner wall going over part of the eye, the weak SW eyewall, and then out over the storm. The "eye" you see is only part of the eye - the part without that outflow over it. The source is really visible only on radar as that very intense wriggle semicircle N of Rita's center. If you watch you can see the cold cloud moving back and forth over stuff underneath. It's a very bizarre structure.

[THead]

Those pictures are very misleading. Cold indicates very high clouds - but not necessarily that the cause of the clouds is directly underneath. Rita has a very intense N inner eyewall - and virtually no S inner eyewall That blowup of convection doesn't result from convection underneath - it's the convection from that inner wall going over part of the eye, the weak SW eyewall, and then out over the storm. The "eye" you see is only part of the eye - the part without that outflow over it. The source is really visible only on radar as that very intense wriggle semicircle N of Rita's center. If you watch you can see the cold cloud moving back and forth over stuff underneath. It's a very bizarre structure.

I'm noticing even colder tops now on the whole northern 'eye wall' on the IR, it seems this area is right over the last 10-20 miles on the coastal waters. Could this be because of the extremely warm waters right along the coast, and if so, when the eye gets over this, will it intensify more do you think? Or will the land interaction by that point nullify any intensification? Just throwing some thoughts out there.