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• by shocko61

  ACC0001aup A cold cats eye storm .

  Posted January 21, 2013 1:25 PM

• by Casna51

  I can see a cat's eye, but I was wondering how this eye is defined verbally.

  Posted January 21, 2013 5:18 PM

• by cch001 scientist

  This is probably an #obscured-eye storm. The blue clouds in the middle of the white are probably thin clouds covering a well-developed eye

  Posted January 23, 2013 3:26 AM

• by bretarn translator

  Cat's eye is a pretty and poetical class, so fast changing as they focus on a prey or widen with anger!

  Posted May 5, 2013 9:18 PM

• by shocko61

  Hi casna51, interesting if there is an eye into the warmer cloud layers it is covered by a blue layer in which case I am not sure what to

  Posted May 6, 2013 4:54 AM

• by shocko61

  call the eye and not sure if it is correct to classify it as an eye or as embedded . Ian shocko61

  Posted May 6, 2013 4:57 AM

• by cch001 scientist

  This is a good example on why we are doing this project. Is it an eye or not? An expert can't even know for sure.

  Posted May 7, 2013 12:44 AM

• by cch001 scientist

  In my opinion, the mature storm structure and the very cold surrounding cloud suggest this is an eye storm. But it will be interesting to

  Posted May 7, 2013 12:45 AM

• by cch001 scientist

  see everyone's opinion.

  Posted May 7, 2013 12:45 AM

• by shocko61

  Hi cch001, In the past i have had other storms that had a blue "eye" and treated them as eyes but I am still not sure if the colder blue

  Posted May 7, 2013 2:02 AM

• by shocko61

  cloud is classed as eye because the tutorial is usually into the warmer low cloud ?? it seems to me, that the fact that the storm has enough

  Posted May 7, 2013 2:07 AM

• by shocko61

  circulation to form an eye that it must have a lot of circulation in the lower areas ,enough to class it(them)as eyes .the thing that

  Posted May 7, 2013 2:11 AM

• by shocko61

  worries me is over classifying a storm and getting the rest of the storm wrong and is why I will go to a lower cloud level (temperature)

  Posted May 7, 2013 2:14 AM

• by shocko61

  when classifying eye storms IE tutorial ,cloud surrounding the center of the eye.

  Posted May 7, 2013 2:16 AM

• by cch001 scientist

  Yes, usually the eye will have much warmer cloud (yellow, orange at minimum). But sometimes there will be a thin cold cloud layer over the

  Posted May 8, 2013 12:16 AM

• by cch001 scientist

  middle that the satellite can't "see" through. It is probably clear underneath the "blue" cloud to the ocean. Very interesting.

  Posted May 8, 2013 12:17 AM

• by bretarn translator

  I've classified it as an eye, thinking the eye is just under cold layer (before reading previous comments) really interesting

  Posted August 2, 2013 3:25 PM

• by bretarn translator

  a real weird image when you think about.

  Posted August 4, 2013 5:20 PM

• by Struck moderator, translator

  Hi bretarn, the dominant feature of an #eye-storm is, that the storm-center is warmer than the temperature of the surrounding #eye-wall. =)

  Posted August 4, 2013 5:31 PM

• by Struck moderator, translator

  I think, you did the right choice. 😉

  Posted August 4, 2013 5:32 PM