To: steveegg
In eyewall replacement, the storm intensifies, is that correct?
684 posted on
08/29/2005 5:37:06 AM PDT by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: Peach
In eyewall replacement, the storm intensifies, is that correct?frequently...... right afterwards.
696 posted on
08/29/2005 5:39:12 AM PDT by
beyond the sea
("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
To: Peach
In eyewall replacement, the storm intensifies, is that correct?
No. During a replacement a storm weakens considerably. After it's over, a storm will return to its original strength if conditions around it haven't changed; if shear, dry air have increased, or the storm is passing over land, it won't restrengthen after the replacement.
To: Peach
I believe that would be the case only if it were over water. It's moving onto land and that will break it up, eventually...
708 posted on
08/29/2005 5:40:50 AM PDT by
DB
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To: Peach
In eyewall replacement, the storm intensifies, is that correct? From NOAA - Not as it's being replaced (the hurricane is acutally weakening as the formation of the new eyewall robs energy from the old one). It can, under ideal conditions, emerge at the same strength or even stronger. That's not going to happen with Katrina (at least if I'm guesstimating right based on the radar); much of it is already over land.
The way I read the radar, the north half of the eye is shrinking, while the southern half is trying to re-form at its previous size.
744 posted on
08/29/2005 5:46:48 AM PDT by
steveegg
(Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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