Subject: ACC0001aup
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by shocko61
ACC0001aup A cold cats eye storm .
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by Casna51
I can see a cat's eye, but I was wondering how this eye is defined verbally.
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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
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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!
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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
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by shocko61
call the eye and not sure if it is correct to classify it as an eye or as embedded . Ian shocko61
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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.
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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
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by cch001 scientist
see everyone's opinion.
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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by shocko61
when classifying eye storms IE tutorial ,cloud surrounding the center of the eye.
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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
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by cch001 scientist
middle that the satellite can't "see" through. It is probably clear underneath the "blue" cloud to the ocean. Very interesting.
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by bretarn translator
I've classified it as an eye, thinking the eye is just under cold layer (before reading previous comments) really interesting
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by bretarn translator
a real weird image when you think about.
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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. =)
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by Struck moderator, translator
I think, you did the right choice. 😉
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