ATL: Tropical Depression Fay

[Normandy]

I give up on this storm. Its entire life over water it could not get a vertically stacked center, but once it crosses land it develops an eye. Outrageous.

[jlauderdal]

Crist's declaration of a state of emergency was prudent. The premature closure of schools and government offices was not.

there are a couple million kids that are going to egg your house with that attitude, lol

[Cookiely]

Am I seeing this correctly? Fay proceeds across the state, comes back in the GOM and proceeds to landfall in the same area a second time. What are the odds? A zillion to one.
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfstc2.c ... =Animation

[O Town]

Not much rain here in Orlando yet.
That trough is keeping things well to the south including all the rain band. She looks weird all squished.
The rain will be here soon enough tho.
Oh and LOL at Normandy I was thinking the same thing.

[gatorcane]

I give up on this storm. Its entire life over water it could not get a vertically stacked center, but once it crosses land it develops an eye. Outrageous.

There is no doubt Fay is strengthening over the Everglades this morning. A northern eyewall seems to be trying to form on the North and East side of a well-defined center on radar analysis. it's quite unbelievable if you ask me.

[Normandy]

I need a pro met to explain what is going on with Fay. Storms don't develop eyes hours after they make landfall, they usually lose their eye features. Fay barely had a eyewall going when she came ashore, and the latest radar return shows an almost fully enclosed eyewall. It just makes not sense. Is it being enhanced by the trough to its north?

[Extremeweatherguy]

Well, I am about to head off to the airport soon. Hopefully my noon flight out of Orlando will get out on time!

[ronjon]

Very strong RAD profile still with what appears to be an eye. Proximity to GOM, Lake O, and everglades may be aiding in maintaining status quo. Very slow drift on motion. Could see some very high rainfall amounts today, perhaps 10+ inches.

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?num=6&scale=1&delay=15&noclutter=1&showstorms=0&showlabels=1&ID=TBW&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&type=N0R&zoommode=pan&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&prevzoom=zoom

[O Town]

I need a pro met to explain what is going on with Fay. Storms don't develop eyes hours after they make landfall, they usually lose their eye features. Fay barely had a eyewall going when she came ashore, and the latest radar return shows an almost fully enclosed eyewall. It just makes not sense. Is it being enhanced by the trough to its north?

I noticed the same kind of thing happen with Dolly as well. Her eye cleared out significantly once she was over Texas.

[shaggy]

I need a pro met to explain what is going on with Fay. Storms don't develop eyes hours after they make landfall, they usually lose their eye features. Fay barely had a eyewall going when she came ashore, and the latest radar return shows an almost fully enclosed eyewall. It just makes not sense. Is it being enhanced by the trough to its north?

Saw on another site that land interaction/friction is tightening the rotation and that the everglades being low flat swamp hasn't hurt it much.

[wafbwx]

Am I seeing this correctly? Fay proceeds across the state, comes back in the GOM and proceeds to landfall in the same area a second time. What are the odds? A zillion to one.
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfstc2.c ... =Animation

That's an old run of the GFS...from Sunday night.

[Cuber]

I need a pro met to explain what is going on with Fay. Storms don't develop eyes hours after they make landfall, they usually lose their eye features. Fay barely had a eyewall going when she came ashore, and the latest radar return shows an almost fully enclosed eyewall. It just makes not sense. Is it being enhanced by the trough to its north?

The Everglades is not your normal dry land it's wet warm and flat .. feeder band from the warm Atlantic picking up moisture to feed the beast too

[Normandy]

While what Dolly did over land was impressive, it doesn't hold a candle to this...I would encourage you all to look at a landfall radar shot of Fay, and look at it now. The difference is absolutely hilarious, its as if it went over a warm eddy over the gulf. Even though the everglades won't hurt the storm as much, there has to be some other reasoning as to why Fay is behaving like this.

[gatorcane]

If you look at this radar shot out of Miami, you can see a dry slot now just east of the eastern "ring" of deeper convection near the center. As Fay moves NNE, the land becomes less swampy and flat.....

With that said, I expect gradual weakening as the day progresses.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid= ... 11&loop=no

[DESTRUCTION5]

While what Dolly did over land was impressive, it doesn't hold a candle to this...I would encourage you all to look at a landfall radar shot of Fay, and look at it now. The difference is absolutely hilarious, its as if it went over a warm eddy over the gulf. Even though the everglades won't hurt the storm as much, there has to be some other reasoning as to why Fay is behaving like this.

Trough enhancement? Like Wilma at a MUCH smaller scale? maybe?

[Normandy]

While what Dolly did over land was impressive, it doesn't hold a candle to this...I would encourage you all to look at a landfall radar shot of Fay, and look at it now. The difference is absolutely hilarious, its as if it went over a warm eddy over the gulf. Even though the everglades won't hurt the storm as much, there has to be some other reasoning as to why Fay is behaving like this.

Trough enhancement? Like Wilma at a MUCH smaller scale? maybe?

Thats really the only thing I could come up with.

[sfwx]

9:35 a.m.

Heavy rain

wind East 12 mph gusting 25 mph

1005 mb

[gatorcane]

Another thing that's interesting to note. It looks like West Palm Beach saw stronger winds than Naples from Fay. I checked obs at the airport and could only find a 36mph gust at Naples but I saw a few 41mph gusts at West Palm Beach.

I saw a 48mph gust at Ft. Myers.

[O Town]

This is kind of a cool series of pics. from google earth radar. Kinda fun to zoom in and look in the eye.



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Looks like shes over some farm land now.

[HURAKAN]

4.74 inches of rain since Fay's first band.