akt1985
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Will north Alabama see any severe weather Friday when what’s left of Laura passes through middle Tennessee?
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Hurricane Hurricane Laura
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Kory
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I have a feeling yes. This could also be a prolific wind maker well into TN/KY as it hooks East and becomes baroclinically enhanced from an approaching trough.
warneagle
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Guess I won't be playing golf on Saturday.
warneagle
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Central pressure is down to 983 mb
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Kory
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She's taking off now. This looks to devastate areas that Rita did nearly 15 years ago.
warneagle
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Convection is really blowing up around the center now.
BayouWeatherGeek
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Winds up to 85 MPH
She's really getting her act together now.
She's really getting her act together now.
Latest NHC fix is 25.0N 89.0W, so right where the little red dot is. Fully wrapped up now.
TornadoFan
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Pressure is freefalling. Now down to 982 on the last pass.
warneagle
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981 on the next one. Wow.
Looks "better" every frame - but I truly wish we were not seeing what we are seeing.
warneagle
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hurricane go boom
BayouWeatherGeek
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She's a beast
Check the individual storms firing in that remaining dry slot. Laura is really putting on a show tonight. I tend to make myself stop looking at the mesoscale floaters and step back to see the big picture from time to time. The scale of this storm has to be seen to be appreciated. Check out the outflow on Laura. This storm has almost everything she could possibly ask for.
TornadoFan
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Last pass showed the pressure at 980.
TornadoFan
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5mb in about 6 hours. What's the definition of RI?
Rapid intensification, also known as RI, is roughly defined by the NHC as an "increase in the maximum sustained winds of a tropical cyclone of at least 30 kt in a 24-hour period." Rapid intensification is often coupled with a rapid decrease in a storm's minimum pressure, and thus RI is also known as rapid deepening. However, the NHC maintains its own definition of rapid deepening, which would be a drop of 1.75 mbar/hour or 42 mbars in a day.
BayouWeatherGeek
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This satellite loop is impressive.
TornadoFan
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Winds are now up to 90 MPH, pressure 978, expected to be CAT 3+ at landfall.