Re: Recon image
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 8/24/2016, 1:01 pm
What's on visible is removed from the convection at this point.

"Tropical Cyclone:

A warm-core non-frontal synoptic-scale cyclone, originating over tropical or subtropical waters, with organized
deep convection and a closed surface wind circulation about a well-defined center. Once formed, a tropical
cyclone is maintained by the extraction of heat energy from the ocean at high temperature and heat export at
the low temperatures of the upper troposphere. In this they differ from extratropical cyclones, which derive their
energy from horizontal temperature contrasts in the atmosphere (baroclinic effects)."

From: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml#TROPCYC

I would say that it might not have "organized deep convection" close enough to the possible LLC. And based on the
recent recon it doesn't seem well organized. They are heading north toward that area that looks to be an LLC on
visible satellite, but based on the wind directions, it doesn't look organized at all so far.



Here is an earlier wide view through 12:32pm EDT:

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99L has tropical storm force winds, they are trying to see if it has a well defined center - Chris in Tampa, 8/24/2016, 11:56 am
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