ATL: LEE - Post-Tropical - Discussion

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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1461 Postby USTropics » Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:51 am

cheezyWXguy wrote:At a time on Thursday Lee was about the best looking cat2 I’ve ever seen, and now it’s about the ugliest cat3 I’ve ever seen. Just goes to show the value of recon.

I haven’t seen any mw passes in a while, but vis imagery suggests an outer eyewall has wrapped around most of the core, except maybe to the south where the shear is coming from. If so, I wouldn’t expect any strengthening today until the inevitable ERC completes, but I do think the weakening has stopped.


Good pass from about 3 hours ago, shows the pinhole eyewall (reported closed by latest recon pass but open to the west a few hours ago). Also signs of secondary, outer eyewall potentially forming in the northern quadrants. Will have to see if it becomes concentric later today or if the pinhole eye becomes the dominant feature again.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1462 Postby aspen » Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:57 am

Pressure is up again. Eye drop of 960/27.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1463 Postby Hypercane_Kyle » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:03 am

Not going to lie, I did not expect to see Lee struggle this much.

Still a high chance of second life tomorrow afternoon, but this could drop down to low-end Cat 2 or even Cat 1 today.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1464 Postby WalterWhite » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:06 am

FL data supports 80 kt.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1465 Postby Iceresistance » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:19 am

Lee doesn't look good at all, with mid-level southerly shear and northerly upper-level shear?

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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1466 Postby aspen » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:31 am

Hypercane_Kyle wrote:Not going to lie, I did not expect to see Lee struggle this much.

Still a high chance of second life tomorrow afternoon, but this could drop down to low-end Cat 2 or even Cat 1 today.

Lee took one of the biggest Ls I’ve ever seen in the last few years.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1467 Postby Teban54 » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:33 am

aspen wrote:
Hypercane_Kyle wrote:Not going to lie, I did not expect to see Lee struggle this much.

Still a high chance of second life tomorrow afternoon, but this could drop down to low-end Cat 2 or even Cat 1 today.

Lee took one of the biggest Ls I’ve ever seen in the last few years.

I beg to differ, that title belongs to Pamela.

I may have jinxed it by reading up on the Pamela thread again the night before Lee's RI. At least Lee managed to take advantage of the nuclear environment briefly, and got close (depending on your standards) to the forecast intensities, with one of the most impressive RIs in this basin. Pamela never got remotely close before the higher than expected shear took its toll on her.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1468 Postby Hypercane_Kyle » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:34 am

aspen wrote:
Hypercane_Kyle wrote:Not going to lie, I did not expect to see Lee struggle this much.

Still a high chance of second life tomorrow afternoon, but this could drop down to low-end Cat 2 or even Cat 1 today.

Lee took one of the biggest Ls I’ve ever seen in the last few years.


Cat 5 to nearly exposed LLC in the span of like 36 hours is quite the feat to be sure. Still very much an El Nino year, despite the insane SSTs.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1469 Postby aspen » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:38 am

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Hypercane_Kyle wrote:Not going to lie, I did not expect to see Lee struggle this much.

Still a high chance of second life tomorrow afternoon, but this could drop down to low-end Cat 2 or even Cat 1 today.

Lee took one of the biggest Ls I’ve ever seen in the last few years.

I beg to differ, that title belongs to Pamela.

I may have jinxed it by reading up on the Pamela thread again the night before Lee's RI. At least Lee managed to take advantage of the nuclear environment briefly, and got close (depending on your standards) to the forecast intensities, with one of the most impressive RIs in this basin. Pamela never got remotely close before the higher than expected shear took its toll on her.

Oh right, I forgot about Pamela. Just goes to show how much of a bust that was lol.

Lee was a little more of a shock than Pamela, because it got so strong and had numerous sub-900 and 150-170+ kt model runs before it got nuked by out-of-nowhere shear. Not as big of an L like you said because it actually became a 5, but a shocking short-term forecast bust.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1470 Postby WalterWhite » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:47 am

Why are they keeping Lee at 100 knots? FL data clearly supports 80 knots.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1471 Postby Landy » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:49 am

WalterWhite wrote:Why are they keeping Lee at 100 knots? FL data clearly supports 80 knots.

Applying reduction for the latest NW eyewall sonde's 150m mean supports at least 95kt.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1472 Postby Kazmit » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:53 am

NHC has Lee getting back up to 120kt in a couple days.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1473 Postby zzzh » Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:57 am

Eye popping out on visible.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1474 Postby dexterlabio » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:18 am

Iceresistance wrote:Lee doesn't look good at all, with mid-level southerly shear and northerly upper-level shear?

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Shear could be much stronger in the region in actual. Models were showing Lee to reach 180-190mph at this point...
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1475 Postby cheezyWXguy » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:19 am

Lee may start to recover if that burst manages to get all the way around
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1476 Postby Hurricaneman » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:20 am

Looks as though the system has become better organized with the eye popping out and possibly a really small core with a large area of winds
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1477 Postby Sciencerocks » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:21 am

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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1478 Postby Category5Kaiju » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:24 am

So, does the weaker this thing remains mean it could get further west before making a northward turn? I have seen this game over and over again in the Atlantic and am pretty sure it will restrengthen. But I am indeed a bit curious about steering patterns based on short-term strength.
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1479 Postby PavelGaborik10 » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:27 am

When I went to bed last night it looked like it was getting its act back together.

Now I wake up to a storm that looks like a sheared TS(yes I'm aware it's not an actual TS) about to have its LLC exposed.

This is crazy lol
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Re: ATL: LEE - Hurricane - Discussion

#1480 Postby ElectricStorm » Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:35 am

I think we'll see a larger eye try to clear out in the next 18-24 hours or so, which seems to be consistent with the hurricane models. Probably won't do much strengthening until then

We'll see if the 12z runs show something similar
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