Looking at the map, the Sandy Point Wildlife Refuge got nailed. Hopefully in the city of Frederiksted they somehow avoided the absolute worst part of the eye wall. Every mile away from that eye wall is huge.
Agreed. It’s more evident on the Storm Relative Velocity plot than it is on Base Velocity posted above, but that outer eyewall just doen’t have the windspeed that the inner one does.
I think that trend is changing though. With HF winds at 75 miles radius now, and the one bouy readout I found between eyewall and PR, of 82 degrees F, it won’t get weaker overall, and conservation of energy means anything the inner eyewall loses, has to go somewhere, whether it strengthens or not.