CrazyC83 wrote:Dean4Storms wrote:It was 100mph with much more pressure. I think the plane sometimes misses where the highest winds are located, it happens. But at 969mb now, there is no way this is just at 90mph.
Pressure and winds are not a one-to-one relationship. Irene is quite a bit bigger now than last night. Igor had a pressure of 945mb at one point while a Cat 1, while some storms at that pressure have been strong Cat 4s.
very true... but the winds will catch up eventually... there seems to be a lag time in the winds coming up quickly as the pressure drops quickly..
Jesse V. Bass III
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