EPAC: AMANDA - Post-Tropical

[euro6208]

Personally i would place the intensity at 115 knots, Category 4!

[Kingarabian]

It's been a long time since we've last seen a Cat.5 in the EPac. Let's see what it's got.

...and it's continuing to rapidly intensify. This has the looks of a Category 4 hurricane.

http://i.imgur.com/smqDqky.gif

Gonna need that circle of gray around the eye to connect.

[stormkite]

Personally i would place the intensity at 115 knots, Category 4!

Yeah looks a monster atm.

[dexterlabio]

Very interesting EPAC 'cane... I have this feeling we're gonna see more systems like Amanda in this basin...

[Yellow Evan]

It's been a long time since we've last seen a Cat.5 in the EPac. Let's see what it's got.

...and it's continuing to rapidly intensify. This has the looks of a Category 4 hurricane.

http://i.imgur.com/smqDqky.gif

Gonna need that circle of gray around the eye to connect.

I doubt it'll reach Cat 5. But hey, at one point, I doubted it would become a major.

[Kingarabian]

Side note - nice seeing so much activity on the EPAC forum

[tolakram]

Live Loop (image every 3 hours)

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-goes?satellite=GOES-E%20FULL&lat=15&lon=-122&info=ir&zoom=1&width=1024&height=768&type=Animation&quality=95&palette=ir2.pal&numframes=10

[supercane4867]

Damn...this already looks more impressive than Raymond last year at its best

[tolakram]

Live loop, 30 minute frames

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-goes?satellite=GOES-E%20NHE&lat=15&lon=-132&info=ir&zoom=1&width=800&height=600&type=Animation&quality=95&palette=ir2.pal&numframes=20

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Stronger than any WPac system so far. I guess this has a good chance of intensifying and becoming the strongest ePac may storm on record, surpassing Hurricane Adolph.

Conditions are becoming even MORE FAVORABLE, especially for Amanda's very slow movement. There has been a continuous and quite significant warming south and west of Baja California which has been one of the key reasons why Amanda was able to intensify so rapidly at a usually quite inactive month. I guess this could intensify to high-cat 4 strength the most at 250 km/h.





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[Yellow Evan]

Amanda's arguably the second fastest I've seen a storm deepen. After Jimena 09. It even rivals Rick 09, Celia 10, and Felicia 09's EI. WOW. This is shocking for May 24!!! That's the most impressive thing. I'd be shocking anytime of year, but given how early it is and how El Ninos tend to be late activity starters, it's sweeter IMO.

Regarding all the activity on the forum, yea, the EPAC thus far has been getting tons of attention on Storm2k.

[Yellow Evan]

Stronger than any WPac system so far. I guess this has a good chance of intensifying and becoming the strongest ePac may storm on record, surpassing Hurricane Bud.

Conditions are becoming even MORE FAVORABLE, especially for Amanda's very slow movement. There has been a continuous and quite significant warming south and west of Baja California which has been one of the key reasons why Amanda was able to intensify so rapidly at a usually quite month. I guess this could intensify to mid-cat 4 strength the most at 230 km/h.
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Bud?? The record holder for May is Adolph

[Kingarabian]

Magnificent.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Bud?? The record holder for May is Adolph

Post edited. Thanks for the correction.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Magnificent.

Very deep convection surrounding a very clear eye. How magnificent is that!

[supercane4867]

Bud?? The record holder for May is Adolph

Amanda is definitely not so far behind

[Yellow Evan]

http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/R ... ep0114.tcw

JTWC Advisory only puts this at 85 knts. Not that the JTWC is much of a factor in the EPAC.

[euro6208]

http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/warnings/ep0114.tcw

JTWC Advisory only puts this at 85 knts. Not that the JTWC is much of a factor in the EPAC.

That's the 00Z update so they haven't updated yet. 06Z should.

[euro6208]

Small hurricane.

[stormkite]

Seen many of these midget cyclones in my basin will be very surprised if this don't achieve 140 knots after the next eye-wall replacement given the present conditions.