Outstanding Close Up Of Hurricane Felix Eye Picture
Posted by Jeff Gammons on 02 Sep 2007 at 3:33 pm
Tagged as: Satellite Imagery
Another Wild Update: 8:17pm et: Category 5 status
Major Hurricane Felix is now a intense category 5 hurricane with winds of 165mph. This is a extremely dangerous hurricane now. Stay tuned as we have major full coverage of Felix and future landfalls in the coming days.
Update: 4:56pm ET Felix Now A Category 4 - 140mph
Hurricane Felix is now a very dangerous category 4 hurricane with winds of 140mph.
Impressive Eye Structure - Major Hurricane Felix
I have been monitoring the visible 1km satellite images of now Major Hurricane Felix much of the day. This latest satellite close-up picture of Hurricane Felix’s eye is just outstanding. A nice stadium effect of the eyewall and clear all the way down to the ocean surface, where you can see a few mesocyclones and vortices.
This hurricane has been bombing much of the day as it went from a tropical storm yesterday to almost a category 4 hurricane now. The pressure continues to fall and the winds will likely increase soon making Felix a dangerous cat 4. Central America and the Yucatan will have a monster hurricane on their hands soon.
This is just a quick update to share the very impressive eye picture and hurricane overall structure shot from today’s satellite archives.
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Fantastic!!
An outstanding satellite presentation! Back-to-back Cat 5 ‘Canes. Has that ever happened before? Pretty amazing.
I looked at a topo map for Honduras and Nicaragua. The forecast track of Felix will qucikly encounter some significant mountain terrain which will squeeze even more rain out of it. This could be a real horrible catastrophe similar to Hurricane Mitch that moved south into the northern coast of Honduras. According the TWWC, that resulted in over 9,000 deaths. Let’s hope Felix isn’t a repeat.
Hey Steve - yeah we had back-to-back category 5s in 2005, but this is the first time two cat 5s make landfall in the same season and before Dean last week, Hurricane Andrew was the last cat 5 to make landfall in the Atlantic basin.
Both hurricanes Dean and Felix were strengthening cat 5s, at the time of reaching the coast, which is very impressive. Scary if on the ground there.
Impressive eye shot indeed. Couldn’t believe the intensification on Felix…. sheesh, go away for a weekend…