Hurricane Sandy's Latest Look
By Stephen Gode on October 25, 2012, 5:38pm Last modified: October 26, 2012, 4:05am
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Hurricane Sandy looked symmetrically better before she made landfall on eastern Cuba with deep convection. The hurricane was developing a well-defined eye before hitting Cuba, but now she is struggling to really develop a well-defined eye. Now, the Hurricane is going through the central Bahamas with a weaken look to her. She has some shear and dry air affecting her. Dry air is wrapping into the hurricane from mountains of Cuba and off to the Southwest of the hurricane. Most of the convection is on the western side of the hurricane.
In less than a day or two she will start to have additional shear and become influenced by the trough to start to transform Sandy into a hybrid type of storm. Beyond that, the system has a chance to become phased with the trough and become an expanding and powerful cyclone. Though, the storm maybe limited to even the worst-case scenarios on some of the models, because of her current look.
Currently, the minimum central pressure has been rising, but has leveled off. The storm was weakening a bit, but she is now maintaining her strength with deep convection developing on her western side. There could even be some strengthening possibly before some weakening takes place over the next 48 hours, if Sandy is able to have additional deep convection on her east side, too.
As of the 5 pm NHC public advisory, the minimum central pressure reported by an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is 963 mb. Additional weakening is expected by NHC in the next 48 hours. The wind field is expanding and she is near Cat Island in the central Bahamas. Her location is 24.5N and 75.6W and her maximum sustained winds are at 105 mph. Sandy is moving North at 20 mph. Sandy is a category two hurricane. Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 35 miles from the center and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 205 miles. The wind field will continue to expand.
Cat Island recently reported sustained winds of 60 mph and a surface pressure of 969 mb.
Check back for additional updates on WXedge and Storm Team 8.
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