#9160 Postby curtadams » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:22 pm
The "eye" isn't the eye, or at least not exactly. It's offcenter and the inner eyewall isn't dead yet - you can see the cold convection from its remnants, also offcentered. The "eye" is the moat between the inner and outer walls opening up. It's the beginning of the future eye, if Ike can indeed ever finish his now 5-day ERC, but it's not at the center and it's not part of a complete eye.
Ike is reminding me of Rita with mid-level dry air, being sheared in under the outflow (and hence not directly visible on sat) preventing the ERC from finishing and deflating the storm. That's a *good* way to be reminded of Rita, although even the best-case outcome now is Isabel-level damage due to the massive surge being set up.
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