"Radar looks like she's sucking in dry air on her backside."
Sorta, but well...look at this:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/east/latest_eastwv.jpg
That the vapor channel, and you can see that the inflow for the whole northern side is starting to run dry. The dry slots run in spirals just like the feeder bands.
Been watching the vapor imagery most of the day since condensation is such a large part of the energy budget, and unfortunately, I don't see much weakening this beast except landfall.
Ya know, even though this is a very powerful storm, it is also an unusually large one for its power. So am wondering, could we see some weakening right before the eyewall reaches the city simply because the north and west side of a notable amount of the storm will by then be over land, some of which is more than just swampland?
