Because it isn't easy to have a constant stream of planes flying into a hurricane. Limited resources = this. Things need to be done by a standardized schedule as well.
One concern with that is how hard the NE turn is. A little too hard and it drags the worst right front quadrant over Kingston still. Worst case it hard rights and is over the island longer west to east. I really think it's a matter of degrees of catastrophe though, honestly - the wind at elevation in the mountains around Kingston are going to rip it apart almost no matter where it passes, unless a miracle occurs. I'd not want to be anywhere on that island for the next 48. Here's hoping the whole track is miraculously wrong.
Even though I'd love to see recon in this thing consistently, this is the type of system recon can't afford to just sit around in. They had to evacuate, their plane was in very severe turbulence. You have to remember how dangerous it is in a type of storm like this. They did 4-5 dips into it despite how intense it was in the mid levels, and i think they've did a brilliant job.
Absent new HH data or a radical change in appearance, they won't change it.
My problem was that they plan 2 recons at once for a couple hours, than no recons for 6 hours. Seems kinda counterintuitive.
super typhoons start at 150 mph , so pretty much all cat 5 are super hurricanes including high end cat 4.
I believe a sub-900 mb reading is imminent. If Dvorak is to be trusted, ~892 mb is certainly on the table, but I'm guessing it's floating around the 895 mb and 185 mph range atm.
