[jeffers]

Compared to Post 466, it looks like significant transfer of energy from inner eyewall to outer is well underway:

[dfwgator]

Seems to me, as bad as it was on St. Croix, it could have been much worse.

[jeffers]

Hurricane Hunter captures.

Northeast Outer Eyewall:


Northeast Inner Eyewall:


Southwest Inner Eyewall:


Southwest Outer Eyewall:


Peak velocities on this pass significantly higher in the outer eyewall than in the inner, on both the Left and Right Front Quadrants.

Cross Section along Hurricane Hunter's approximate path, looking SE, NE to left, where he began the pass, SW to right:


Convection heigth and intensity correlate well with measured windspeeds.