Yes and no. In a truly tropical sense, yes, there will be no more access to warm ocean water. But the interaction with the upper jet (which will also be enhanced by diabatic outflow) will allow convection to sustain longer than you would normally expect for a landfalling system.
Yeah you should listen to Scoots, the HREF has a very good verification track record. They are finding that having multiple model cores in there may actually improve its results over single core ensembles.
I can't recall too many ENH with tropical systems. I wouldn't be on it, unless the 00z HREF comes in hot.
It's especially tough because this is essentially tornado driven. Would need a 10% in there.
I think that's actually a warm wake off the top of the convection, the center should be tucked just south of that pink tower. But convection is wrapping around the center which is good.
Honestly don't hate the 18z 3 km NAM wind gust forecast. Right look to the wind field, if not within a few knots of what I expect the gusts to be like.
Also chucks a few updraft helicity tracks for Ryan Tuesday evening.
The environment is actually pretty primed just behind this lifting area of showers and storms. Like if that stuff near POU can get going, that could be something to watch.
For an East Coast recurve, you want a good upstream jet streak, mid level ridging north of the cyclone, and a good low level theta-e ridge drawn north extending well NE of the center.
Model forecasts are pretty close to this conceptual model.