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#1 Postby ChaserUK » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:50 pm

Can someone do me a favour and post the best pic they have of Wilma? IR, WV, VIS, don't care which. I just need to see that unreal pinhole eye. Thanks in advance.

I missed all the best being at work that day.
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#2 Postby WxGuy1 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:52 pm

I don't have any decent pics off-hand, but this question has been asked before, and there have been threads about this previously... I'm assuming you searched the forum?
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#3 Postby Anonymous » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:53 pm

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#4 Postby gatorcane » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:54 pm

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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#5 Postby Brent » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:55 pm

:eek:

Yep...

I've got a bunch saved on my computer from it's entire lifetime.
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#6 Postby ChaserUK » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:59 pm

Floydbuster - that is ONE crazy pic. Thank You.
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#7 Postby wxmann_91 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:00 pm

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=74159

Second to last post.
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#8 Postby ChaserUK » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:01 pm

and that pic begs the question - heat exchange engine - where is it man!
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#9 Postby wxmann_91 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:10 pm

For a sneak peak at what you will see when you click the link provided by me two posts up then look at my avatar. :D
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#10 Postby ChaserUK » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:26 pm

...how any Hurricane became that is unreal. Don't you think?
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#11 Postby Dave C » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:56 pm

I can remember waking up around 2am that morning and turning on the weather channel and seeing that 901 mb pressure and thinking I had eye problems :eek: Once they went to the sat. pic I knew my eyes hadn't deceived me!
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#12 Postby whereverwx » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:16 pm

I hope you find these helpful.

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#13 Postby brunota2003 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:46 pm

This pic is super unreal: Image
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#14 Postby brunota2003 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:47 pm

This pic is unreal: Image
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#15 Postby thunderchief » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:54 pm

why was wilmas tops so much colder that ritas/katrinas/ivans/isabels etc? Cooler background lapse rate? More oceanic heat content?
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#16 Postby WxGuy1 » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:37 pm

thunderchief wrote:Cooler background lapse rate? More oceanic heat content?


Sound like good possibilities to me! The tropical cyclone heat potential of the water under Wilma was about as high as anywhere in the Atlantic basin. There was an upper low that sat over much of the Caribbean and western Atlantic for about a week before Wilma developed IIRC. There may have been some lingering cool mid and upper-level air near Wilma, resulting in steeper-than-usual lapse rates and, given the abundant low-level moisture, higher-than-usual CAPE.
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