wx98 wrote:If this was truly a hurricane it was for very briefly and then started weakening on approach to landfall, according to recon. It may have been but I’ve seen better cases not get an upgrade from NHC. It looked like only one or two passes supported hurricane intensity and the rest were quite below it. The area of hurricane-force winds had to have been very very small.
That might at least partly be due to what appears to be a center relocation to the southwest in those fixes.
Appears to also be tightening up once again with the very fast angular velocity of the new convection firing close to the center.
Regardless, post season analysis should give more conclusive answers.