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

Yeah and little kids doing cartwheels behind him

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Looks like this thing is strengthening. It's almost a perfect circle with a tiny eye.

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Might be strengthening a little bit here, but there is no eye feature outside of radar.

Miss Abrams is trying too hard to sound Cajun right now

I think that may be correct

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This may be a dumb question but if a storm is moving 20mph, does that make the relative wind speeds on the west side 20mph less?

Eta:Like I said, dumb question

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Yes, usually.

Traditionally, the pressure gradient pretty much dictates that the winds should be the same in all quadrants, but that's only if the storm is stationary. Once it starts moving, let's say it's moving north, then the winds on the east side will be enhanced by the forward motion and the winds on the west side will be minus the forward speed, all else being equal.

Slackster or somebody posted a pic a couple days ago that explains it, but essentially yes. Also the 4am NHC discussion said no hurricane force winds found on the west side.

This storm in particular is also still lopsided

Damn Stephanie put on the jacket

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Looks like this thing is strengthening. It's almost a perfect circle with a tiny eye.

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I'm not sure about an eye but Nate has some very deep convection with overshooting tops and gravity waves. Looks like some dry air trying to wrap in from the west, the models saw this and that is one of the reasons they kept Nate in check on the trip across the Gulf. Nate is trying to close off the eye but running out of time.