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“The core is already as wet as it gets, with more on the way, and the backside is puling down polar air from Canada.

“Give this a day to organize, and the cold front could put down a LOT of tornadoes. Everyone south of the center of circulation and out front of the developuing cold front is potentially at risk from severe weather.”
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I’ve made fun of the GFDL model a few times the way it reconstituted Ike as a Hurricane Cat.2 over Chicago/ Detroit in several runs two days ago ((notice EVERYONE- that ‘s NOT going to happen - it is JUST A MODEL not a forecast - even if it is “the best” model)).

After studying the way Ike is affecting nearly an eighth of the surface of the globe, maybe GFDL had a good point in being as concerned as it was. The one thing I can’t figure out about it, though, (and couldn’t when I first noticed that run) was where the heck it thought it could snarf up the energy Ike would need to maintain the power over so much land??? {{shrug}} Models get a life of their own and it is extremely difficult to figure out why the results pop out sometimes.

The photo you linked in http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2081430/posts?page=1018#1018 is really remarkable and I hope most people check it out. It really gives insight as to the power of this storm.

Actually - it would be nice if someone could put a copy of it on a server somewhere so it doesn’t get changed and can be referenced for a while. The photo as linked changes every 15 minutes or so.