It appears that the strengthening cycle will take a hold again this afternoon.
Water Vapor Observations indicate an expanding outflow in all quadrants, also interesting to note that the NHC pegs her outlying hurricane force winds at 85 miles from the center. Only comparing to charlie for recent memories sake, this storm is much larger than charlie, 85 miles in each direction equals a 170 mile swath of hurricane force winds.
Sattelite pictures are picking up much deeper convection then yesterday although frances has not assumed that near perfect buzzsaw with aspect to the infrared we saw a few days ago.
SSTs are about to get a bit warmer in her path. As she passes 60w, waters ought to be able to support a Cat4 again especially with her picking up a bit of speed as the high builds.
http://grads.iges.org/pix/atlpot.gif
Question for any professional Mets out there, is there any research or theorys on whats limits the size (not strength) or affects this in a hurricane?
All signs point to strengthening?
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