[dennis1x]

fyi..this is the sat shot i like to use....for reference at the peak a solid thick red donut surrounded the eye......key is red...decent convection will be red on this pic.....

right now i still see very little in cold cloud tops...i still see dry air being wrapped into the system.

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/03_ATL_13L.ISABEL_ssmi_ir1km_full.html

[dirtboy]

right now i still see very little in cold cloud tops...i still see dry air being wrapped into the system.

I think the dry air has now been cut off and what passes for the eye is now enclosed by convection. And, if you animate the link you provided, you can see moisture streaming across Florida and starting to feed into the hurricane - which is displacing the dry air to the southwest of the storm.