ATL: FRANKLIN - Remnants - Discussion

[Alyono]

if it keeps intensifying at its current rate, probably around 975-970mb at landfall. Could be similar to Gert

[otowntiger]

Nope - still a tropical storm. Recon could not find any hurricane-force winds at the surface.

Not a hurricane yet????!!???

Season cancel.

[Steve]

if it keeps intensifying at its current rate, probably around 975-970mb at landfall. Could be similar to Gert

It's wrapping up pretty nicely now. And with 12 hours to go, I guess 970mb isn't as remote as I thought. It's the absolute low end though short of a stall which doesn't look likely.

[Sanibel]

Tightening up...Going for it no doubt...


Dry air mixed out...Hazy eye becoming apparent...

[GCANE]

Strongest towers to date now firing off as depicted by the cold tops in yellow.

[GCANE]

Right on schedule with COAMPS forecasting a spike in Latent Heat / Enthalpy flux - impressive to say the least.
Looks like those towers are very hot and clearing out an eye.
COAMPS even called out the correct position relative to the CoC.

[GCANE]

Big improvement in 500mb vort.

[GCANE]

Core heating up quickly

[Hypercane_Kyle]

18z models ran on Franklin as a 65 knot hurricane.

Location: 20.1°N 94.4°W
Maximum Winds: 65 kt Gusts: N/A
Minimum Central Pressure: 984 mb
Environmental Pressure: 1008 mb
Radius of Circulation: 150 NM
Radius of Maximum Wind: 30 NM
Eye Diameter: N/A

[Blown Away]

Looks like Franklin may be opening his eye... N Atlantic and BOC may become the new MDR, J/K...

[Dave C]

Right on the 20 latitude line. Josh Morgerman may have better action with this than the Japan typhoon he just chased.

[Kingarabian]

Models still trying to cross Franklin over into the EPac..

[GCANE]

Awesome depiction of how those towers fired off in a line and then spun up the eye.

http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ ... mmb-slider

[CrazyC83]

If I lived in that part of Mexico, I'd be preparing for a major hurricane. Heck I wouldn't entirely be shocked if it became a cat 4...although that may be pushing it, stranger things have happened.

[GCANE]

[cainjamin]

Any idea when Recon is heading in again?

[ColdMiser123]

Safe to say that the upgrade is coming at 5 PM.

[1900hurricane]

Hurricane Franklin certainly appears to be continuing to strengthen. Here's an image from CIRA's SLIDER where band 13 is overlaid onto band 2. Pretty cool.

[ScottNAtlanta]

The Rammb page is listing this as Hurricane Franklin
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/product ... r=AL072017

[Blown Away]

Landfalling hurricane history for this area... Frank seems to be on a Hurricane Janet type track...