Much much stronger. Those outer bands gave us 70 plus mph gusts leading to week plus of no power. Irene maintained its integrity up until NYC. Different animal
What can happen is a barotrophic enhancement as it transitions to extratropical. All these posts this morning are pretty menial. I mean it is a weak TS but with lots of rain and coastal wind its not your everyday summer rain storm as depicted today anyway.
Gonna be hard to get a 90 100 mph cane with all this dry air entrainment and erosion of the eywall
http://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.edu/tropics/isaias20/Isaias_31Jul20_bahamas.gif
Thanks all I did was post the data with zero comment. 6 Z Euro takes it into Miami then up the spine of Florida. Lots of solutions but the westward trend is pretty obvious this morning