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That's because at landfall, Isaac was in the midst of establishing a small inner eyewall within its large 50-mile diameter eye, a very rare feat I've never seen before. Usually, when an eye first forms, it gradually contracts, eventually becoming so small that it becomes unstable. An outer concentric eyewall then forms around the small inner eyewall, eventually becoming the only eyewall when the inner eyewall collapses. But Isaac is a very unusual storm that has continually surprised us, and this inside-out concentric eyewall formation fits the storm's unusual character.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
reply to post by majesticgent
Isnt it hurricane season in the US? Is it really that surprising that you have a hurricane happening now?
Originally posted by Ben81
It is Haarp !
i was wondering how much time before somebody say something about it
at least some people are still focus and have learned with previous conspiracies
The Aurora shooting was a warning to their hidden cabal followers
Aurora like in Haarp
naming the storm Isaac is also all part of the plan
if you know the Isaac myth and legends with the caverns
it represent the sinkhole that is about to be watered a lot
it is so dry that if you add water .. everything will colapse
make a big landslide that will make a tsunami
the wave will travel directly on the Tampa gop convention
a massive false flag made up to look like a natural disasteredit on 8/29/2012 by Ben81 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by majesticgent
reply to post by PhoenixOD
Did you even read what I typed? I know it's hurricane season. It's not surprising that we're having a hurricane, it's the fact how this hurricane has behaved differently than most of the hurricanes prior to it.
In 2008 all of the landfalling hurricanes weakened in this same region right before making landfall. Now, we have a hurricane that was strengthening and forming an inner eye-wall within it's eye-wall. That's extremely uncanny for a hurricane to behave that way.
Maybe this is just an anomaly as hurricanes go, but it opens up the idea where conspiracy theorists say that certain government agencies have viable ways to control the weather.
Originally posted by majesticgent
reply to post by miniatus
It's more than just the path. It's the strengthening of the hurricane at landfall and the inner eye wall forming in a 50 mile wide eye. I've been tracking these things for awhile now. I've seen concentric eyewalls before, but the eye was going through it's normal cycle and much smaller. This eye came from nowhere and had it happened a little further out to sea it would have surged from a tropical storm to a cat 3 in no time right before landfall. Would have been unprecedented in recorded hurricane history.
Originally posted by littled16
reply to post by majesticgent
And the eye situation- that's not so unusual.
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Currently Tropical Storm Isaac continues to move slowly away from the Florida Keys and is now expected to strength with a horizon of warm Gulf water ahead of it. Hurricane warnings has been issued for the coasts of Alabama to Louisiana and Isaac looks to make it’s effect known on the area by Tuesday and Wednesday as either a category 1 or 2 hurricane.
It seems like Tropical Storm Isaac has followed the teams prediction in losing the excess cloud mass, moving away from land. However, his intensification is being slowed down by two factors:
Dry air is working itself into the inflow, and therefore because of that the center of circulation is exposed on the southern flanks. Because of dry air entering the system to the south, no convection has formed, exposing the core of the storm. This promotes disorganization now, but as Isaac moves more to the Northeast, convection should encompass the storm.This should occur within the next 12 hours.
The team observes model guidance and current guidance to produce the best forecast product possible . Two elements that will determine strength and intensity are the current Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) and the current state of the Loop Current, found in the Gulf of Mexico. The loop current illustrates a circling motion over the central Gulf where Isaac is forecast to track, what this can mostly do as the storm approaches is strength itself by the circling motion that creates a coiling of rising air into Isaac.
Aside of the topic loop currents, the team also monitors what current sea-surface temperatures (SST) currently sit at and therefore what sort of air from the sea surface temperatures will rise into the storm. August and September are peak months during the season partially because of the warm sea-surface temperatures. An image below puts into perspective how warm of waters are that Isaac will begin to track into.
Eyewall replacement cycles, also called concentric eyewall cycles, naturally occur in intense tropical cyclones, generally with winds greater than 185 km/h (115 mph), or major hurricanes (Category 3 or above)
The analysis of this large dataset extends the phenomenological paradigm of ERCs described in previous observational case studies by identifying and exploring three distinct phases of ERCs: intensification, weakening, and reintensification. In general, hurricanes intensify, sometimes rapidly, when outer wind maxima are first encountered by aircraft.
Airborne Doppler radar data collected from the concentric eyewalls of Hurricane Rita (2005) provide detailed three-dimensional kinematic observations of the secondary eyewall feature. The secondary eyewall radar echo shows a ring of heavy precipitation containing embedded convective cells, which have no consistent orientation or radial location.
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These features combine to give the secondary eyewall a structure different from the primary eyewall as it builds to become the new replacement eyewall.