3090 wrote:What will be really interesting is to see if the west side moisture wraps all around the core and we see some re-intensification/organization. Lee really has never had west side banding, due to dry air over Texas filtering in. It appears that has substantially relaxed along with the shear. If Lee moves far away offshore and the new found west side banding wraps all the way around, things could get interesting.
Looking at the water vapor loop for the last several days no moisture was making it into Texas or to the SW of the circulation. While it is still sucking in dry air, Lee has made a major push of moisture to the west and now driving deep to the southwest over the last 4-5 hours as you can see on the wv loop. As the storm drifts around near or off the coast I wonder if it continues to push moist air up against that hot dry air to the south west, will it be able to turn off the tap of dry air and get the water flowing again, and for the first time wrapping around the center....
In my uneducated opinion I think the convection on the SW side will wrap around over night and explode when it hits the coast, back moving north again over SELA.