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dolebot_Broward_NW · #1 Postby **dolebot_Broward_NW** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:13 pm

I'm just curious. Can anyone identify this feature? I saw this and I almost freaked, WTF is that?

And the original follows for comparison

#2 Postby **patsmsg** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:15 pm

I hope somebody knows...that's freaky. :?:

That's right up there with the crop circles :lol:

#3 Postby **tracyswfla** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:15 pm

Go to the chat room and have someone look at it!

#4 Postby **wjs3** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:15 pm

It's convection blowing up near the center of the storm.

Droop12 · #5 Postby **Droop12** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:15 pm

Just a burst of convection. It looks to be blowing up right on top of or near the center. She may be on her way to hurricane status.

#6 Postby **Stormcenter** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:16 pm

tracyswfla wrote:Go to the chat room and have someone look at it!

Is that the center?!?!?!?!? :eek:

#7 Postby **LAwxrgal** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:17 pm

She has the classic comma shape thats for sure.

dolebot_Broward_NW · #8 Postby **dolebot_Broward_NW** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:22 pm

Thought aliens landed or something. OK, I've just never seen such a thing quite as well defined before.

I assume that would be towering cloud tops forming a circular (as seen from the satellites perspective) pattern. I think it looks so well defined because the sun is setting and casting a shadow to its right.

Those must be some seriously high clouds.

#9 Postby **dhweather** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:23 pm

It's where the government secretly dropped a nuclear bomb in the
storm rying to blow it up.

Seriously, that's just a big blow up of convection - a massive thunderstorm near the center.

Ixolib · #10 Postby **Ixolib** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:24 pm

Huge oil rig. J/K. Speaking of which, I guess they've evacuated them???

HurryKane · #11 Postby **HurryKane** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:24 pm

dhweather wrote:It's where the government secretly dropped a nuclear bomb in the
storm rying to blow it up.

Seriously, that's just a big blow up of convection - a massive thunderstorm near the center.

Kinda like a big zit about to pop?

Sean in New Orleans · #12 Postby **Sean in New Orleans** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:25 pm

It's quite possibly hurricane force winds...that's one big explosion of storms near the center.

#13 Postby **dhweather** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:27 pm

Sean in New Orleans wrote:It's quite possibly hurricane force winds...that's one big explosion of storms near the center.

Exactly - that area probably has the strongest winds in the storm this minute.

#14 Postby **Stormcenter** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:27 pm

As Sean in N.O. posted she "may" be slowing down a bit.

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satelli ... duration=6

#15 Postby **Steve** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:29 pm

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html

If it does represent the center (unlike the base reflexivity-sp?- everyone's been posting), does it make primary landfall in Lafourche, Jefferson or Plaquemines Parish?

Steve

#16 Postby **Andrew92** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:31 pm

Maybe Cindy has a wart on her nose.

-Andrew92

AL Chili Pepper · #17 Postby **AL Chili Pepper** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:08 pm

That's a heavy duty line of persistant thunderstorms to the east of the LLC. Somebody's in for some big rain totals.

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