re: Hurricane Nate - Moving Inland - Hurricane Season Over?

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This is worded a bit weird, but yes, a quicker storm gives it less time to get its act together. It doesn't really prevent strengthening on its own,

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In this case, it might be moving fast enough to act as a limit on strengthening. Once Nate is really flying over the gulf, the east side will be pulling up a lot of heat with those strong steering currents helping out of the S and SE. The west side will have those steering winds working against it, and limiting the heat the west side can pick up. Making Nate spend energy to just get and stay somewhat symmetrical instead of having all quadrants supplying good heat flux.

I might be overselling just how much the wind differential on sides matters, but it makes sense to me it would have an impact in this case with a small circulation trying to organize for the first time.