Hurricane Hurricane Milton

slenker said:
Question: with the extraordinarily compact eye and very deep central pressure, why wasn’t the windspeed on this thing higher than a storm like Irma or Dorian? They had larger eyes and higher central pressures.
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I think it has to do with relationships to pressures around the systems. Remember at landfall Katrina had 920 mb but was down to 125 mph winds.
 
slenker said:
Question: with the extraordinarily compact eye and very deep central pressure, why wasn’t the windspeed on this thing higher than a storm like Irma or Dorian? They had larger eyes and higher central pressures.
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In my best slingblade voice: "Weren't nobody there ta measure it." ;)
 
tornado examiner said:
Is it nearly done with the cycle or is that still ongoing?
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Still ongoing, imo - firing new towers on the south side of the new eyewall, but seems to be having no trouble of it.

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Blountwolf said:
I don't know honestly - I'm throwing out something to hope for, because it's going to look like doom north of the channel I expect. You can already see that series of storms just over Cancun becoming a major feeder. Every storm I've ever seen with an eastern feeder vertical in the channel like that just goes nuts - and then to pass over the loop current moving east - we just have no idea, I expect. Insane to be saying that about a storm of this magnitude already - I just have no idea what it's going to do with the loop current.
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I am seeing more assemetry on satellite than before along the lines of what you pointed out with the WV loop. Unsure of what impact that will create.
 
Evan said:
I am seeing more assemetry on satellite than before along the lines of what you pointed out with the WV loop. Unsure of what impact that will create.
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With Helene, it sucked in some dry air from a quite dry Yucatan. They've had an exceptional drought. However, Helene probably mostly took that out of the equation for Milton, especially on the eastern side.
 
brianc33710 said:
He looks pretty healthy to me.
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Quite healthy - but undergoing an EWRC, which increases the size of the eye and the size of the overall wind field, typically with an accompanying rise in pressure and slowing of the highest winds. Looks like the old eye has filled in and we are waiting for the new larger to clear out as new very cold thunderstorms form the new eyewall. He's getting bigger. It will be interesting to see what we wake up to.
 
Blountwolf said:
Quite healthy - but undergoing an EWRC, which increases the size of the eye and the size of the overall wind field, typically with an accompanying rise in pressure and slowing of the highest winds. Looks like the old eye has filled in and we are waiting for the new larger to clear out as new very cold thunderstorms form the new eyewall. He's getting bigger. It will be interesting to see what we wake up to.
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That's why I was asking if the pressure had already dropped back down to 901, as indicated at the top of the picture.
 
brianc33710 said:
That's why I was asking if the pressure had already dropped back down to 901, as indicated at the top of the picture.
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Hmm. Didn't notice that. Not sure. Pretty sure it would have risen from the recent 914, not fallen - it's not yet consolidated a new eye.
 
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Cool, one can track the EWRC by lightning flashes on Milton.

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Old Eyewall.
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New Eyewall.
 
Wow. Yep - Milton continues to outperform the expectations of his name.
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TornadoFan said:
The lightning around the eye is really taking off.
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Yeah, I think we're just about done with Milton's eyewall upgrade.

EDIT: I know better - these always fool you some first.
 
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Check all the lightning on the storms in the line up the channel. I bet Cancun is getting a show.
 
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