Carolina Gardening: Rapid fire I guess, 1 by keonikale

keonikale wrote:
X, to answer your question about the Hurricane winds. I think it's because most of the hurricane force winds are always right at the eye wall itself (or in that NE quadrant), at least in a Cat 1 or Cat 2 storm. Typically the outer bands of the storm are TS force only. Now if you get up to a Cat3 or higher (major classification) then that's not always true. The hurricane force winds extend well outside the eye wall. So you have a good point on that.

This graphic shows the scale of the winds though, and how localized the hurricane force winds are currently in this Cat 1 Hanna. Notice where the center of the storm is, and where the red is... that NE quadrant is a beast.

This message was edited Sep 1, 2008 10:51 PM