Pressure Dropping Again - How Low?

[SamSagnella]

Rita has reentered a deepening phase and could really drop her pressure way down once again. How far down do you think it will go on this second round of intensification?

I think 900mb.

EDIT: Can a mod add '897 or Below' to the poll please?

[milankovitch]

Rita is deepening during an ERC I think once the ERC is done this is going back to 900......or lower.

[jpigott]

last 3 vortex reports have been !! Rita has gone from 913 - 911 -913. I wonder if she is waitning until she gets done with EWRC before she goes

[Viper252]

Very possible it could break Gilberts record.

[blueeyes_austin]

The water she is going over is not nearly as warm, and will become more shallow.

I think it will be in the 905-907 range at its next peak.

[huricanwatcher]

HOW LOW CAN SHE GO??

[NastyCat4]

Right now, it is probably a Cat 5 as we speak. Is this thing really going to stay weak, and be a Cat 3 on landfall? I wish, for the sake of the people in the area it will make landfall, but I really don't think so. This could be a VERY Strong Cat 4 or a 5 on landfall.

[smashmode]

The majority thinks this thing is going back down 900?

what is it strengthing off of?..

[NastyCat4]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/FLOAT/VIS/20.jpg


I think this picture says it all---looks like it is back at full steam.

[jhamps10]

i put down 898-899. But only because it's the lowest on here, I really think that it could get back down to 897 or even 895, (I am not wanting this at all, I have friends that live in Houston, I actually want a miracle and have this thing just completely fall apart). It looks good right now, I think that it really will intensify rapidly.

[SamSagnella]

The majority thinks this thing is going back down 900?

what is it strengthing off of?..

I think a better question would be, what was is weakening off of? The dry air, which everyone has been saying was the cause of the weakening, had nothing to do with it at all. The passage over a cool eddy in the GoM and the occurrance of an ERC led to the temporary weakening that we have seen over the past ~18hrs. Now that the ERC is almost complete, and that there is a warm eddy in the direct path of Rita, it seems likely that it could restrengthen rather significantly tonight. Once dry air entrainment begins, thats when the more long-term weakening will have started. FWIW.

[arlwx]

If there had been a category of "no lower than 912", I would have voted for it.

[arlwx]

I see the latest vortex now has it at 915 mb.

[audioslave8]

920 TO 932 SHES ALREADY AT 917 11:00 P.M. ADVISORY SHE AINT GETTING ANY STRONGER

[Dmetal81]

920 TO 932 SHES ALREADY AT 917 11:00 P.M. ADVISORY SHE AINT GETTING ANY STRONGER

Thats cause she isnt done replacing her eyewall... it wouldnt surprise me if she did most of her deepening tonight during the satellite shadow, as the EWRC is about done now it seems.

Since we're guessing, who wants to guess the diameter of her new eye? I say 35nm

[audioslave8]

pressure 921 i dont think so she wont be as strong as Katrina when she makes landfall