"Convection has been re-organizing and wrapping around the system recently. This is something that usually happens before strengthening. Recon indicates that she has leveled off at least. Something to watch in the next few hours... definately not the time to give up on the storm. If it did decide to strengthen now, it might be a bad time... we could see it do so through landfall. I still think it will come in at 130mph+ at this point."
Back to reality, thank for all your posts. I see the red wrapping around the eye again and growing in width in the IR loop, as the eye becomes more defind again. :(
Every new frame looks better... something is going on down there. Bad news for the short term is that the western side has really popped. This seems to want to drag the eye west for at least a time. I'm still not convinced houston is out of trouble. The heaviest should miss them, but any jog west is not so good at this point.