[nwctwx]

Not sure it will restrengthen. The environment is still good up above the system, but moisture inflow is restricted on the south and west by land now.

[Prolifeconservative]

Okay, I got this question........see if you can folllow my logic here and understand the gist of my quandry.

Say a Cat 3 is barreling towards Florida and conditions are so unfavorable that it knocks it from a Cat 3 to a Cat 1 before it strikes land......And now take a very strong Cat 5 storm and it follows the same exact path as the Cat 3 in my example and faces the exact identical conditions......Would that CAT 5 then diminish to a Cat 1 as well or would it hold up better and only diminish to a Cat 3 or 2?

[EnquiringMind]

According to tonight's 11:00 p.m. advisory, the NHC is forecasting Wilma to come back to a Category 5 tomorrow (165 mph). Hope they're wrong.

[CFC__VRWC]

Just saw the local news update on Wilma with the 11 PM update. The local weather guys here use a radar system called VIPIR which apparently has hurricane modeling capabilities - they do runs with it with every broadcast. Are you familiar with this system, and how would you evaluate it's capabilities? The latest VIPIR model has Wilma on essentially the same track as the NHC does, but has it coming in much slower - it still has the storm near Cuba on Sunday, while the NHC has it near or already off the east coast.