It’s funny how the outerband is rotating the opposite direction of the cone rotation.
Looks like the coast is seeing its first weather from this storm. If this stalls, I hope it weakens. The water is likely too warm for this to weaken, but I hope it does.
The surge is going to devastate.
Imagine Ike spending 3 days drifting SW along the Texas coast. And the South Carolina coast is much more developed.
That’s not rotation, per se, it is development. Condensation conditions being extended upstream, as the storm intensifies.
That is the upper-level outflow of the storm, and it gets carried away by upper level high pressure over the storm - a key element for a major hurricane - to have well-developed outflow channels.