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#1 Postby hurricanetrack » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:07 am

Looking at the latest WV of Dennis, it looks like some dry air has gotten in there and temporarily halted the deep convection and overall look to Dennis. It is July still- and there is a lot of dry air around- esp. to the west of Dennis. SHIPS model does not seem to care and as we've seen, brings Dennis to 110knots down the road. But still, something is causing this lapse in t-storm activity.
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#2 Postby Anonymous » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:24 am

I don't see any dry air, and the NHC does not mention it. I think what it is, is that the inner core is trying to get better established as they mention.
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#3 Postby chris_fit » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:26 am

~Floydbuster wrote:I don't see any dry air, and the NHC does not mention it. I think what it is, is that the inner core is trying to get better established as they mention.


Ditto what he said 8-)
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#4 Postby dhweather » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:26 am

~Floydbuster wrote:I don't see any dry air, and the NHC does not mention it. I think what it is, is that the inner core is trying to get better established as they mention.


I agree with that assessment Mike - he's just getting organized.
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#5 Postby Hyperstorm » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:28 am

Yes, there is dry air to the west of Dennis. I mentioned it this morning. That's why the western quadrant of the system is not as moisture-laden as the eastern quadrant. It should prevent rapid intensification while it's there.

In any case, Dennis should get over that soon and we'll see this intensify rapidly starting tomorrow...
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#6 Postby loon » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:30 am

Someone call NOAA, they broke my floater...that danged ole dry air isn't showing up on my computer.....
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#7 Postby Anonymous » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:31 am

I admit, the eastern side is more moist. But, I don't see any black or orange dry air hurting it.
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#8 Postby ncweatherwizard » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:36 am

Earlier SSMI pass showed air immediately ahead of Dennis packed with moisture. Maybe a little dry air got in at the low-levels, but I wouldn't bet on it. There's even some stuff still blowing up ahead of Dennis that's not even associated with Dennis, so there's still a pretty decent sized mass of moist air ahead of the system; I don't think anything much has gotten into the system.
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