Idiots at eastern weather are going nuts because it is turning more north. They are saying it will hit Mobile instead, cloud tops are warming etc.
Those morons.
where is this hard turn north? are they seeing different satellite imagery?
There is currently a due north wobble on the radar, but she is generally sticking to the nnw track. Even if she does go more northerly that brings her straight across about 30M E of NO. No way she gets any further E than pascagoula, and I give that a 10% chance at best. This will be an east LA, Gulfport, Biloxi landfall.
The cloudtops are warming. IT is called a fluctuation, if you look at almost all hurricanes, this happens late in the day (don't know the mechanics.) Then the clouds cool and deepen through the night. She may be slightly weaker , maybe 160 now, but she will crank back up before landfall. There is still no sheer, despite Steve Lyons wishful thinking and she is going tobe over the warmest water she has encountered in about 3 hrs. And that water holds 92 degrees all the way to landfall.