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This storm has slammed into a trough that is pulling it apart and throwing it's moisture and content all the way up the east coast. Yesterday before it slamed into the trough, it had the most perfect classic eyewall. Since about 8pm last night the storm has struggled to create an eyewall. In all my life watching hurricanes, I have never seen a storm get battered by a trough, and keep coming back, and I have never seen a 155mph storm with such a sloppy eyewall. The west side of the storm reaches up 20 to 30 thousand feet in the air, while the east side only goes about 10 thousand. It's a sloppy ill formed storm that has no business being there, and certainly has no business not being torn to shreds after slamming into that ridge of dry air.

No weather reporter has explained the dry vortex that just magically appeared behind it in the mid Atlantic keeping it pushed into that trough, so I can't retreat or go east and into the Atlantic storm graveyard.

This hurricane should have been called Frankenstorm, or DARPA's best work yet.

The GOES Disk 8 satellite looks like GOD and DARPA in a battle of Will.

May God prevail!

Does this look like a classic 155mph storm?
Since when do Storms lose their eyewall, but manage to stay 120mph for over 12 hours?
Since when does a Hurricane not get ripped to shreds and torn apart when it hit a trough?
When has a storm ever strengthened into a 150 mph storm right as it makes land fall with a battered eyewall?