Reply #103: 7:00 PM NHC Hurr Rita Report:

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7:00PM CDT THU SEP 22 2005
Hurricane Rita: Cat 4
Maximum Sustained Winds (MPH): 145
Wind Gusts To (MPH): 180
Moving Towards the West at near 10 MPH. (I)
Estimated Minimum Central Pressure: 913 MB...26.96 Inches
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the Center
Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 205 miles.
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I=Increase, D=Decrease from last report
(a) NOAA Reconnaissance Aircraft Data

Rita continues west-northwestward. Outer rainbands spreading over southern Louisiana. At 7 pm CDT the center of Hurricane Rita was located 350 miles east-southeast of Galveston Texas

The next complete advisory at 10 pm CDT.

====GOPA Comments===
Rita can kiss my rosy #@$%. The computer model projections are AGAIN all over the map with no cohesion or consistency. In 20 years I have never see a hurricane screw up the computer model projection so bad. It is like the models are projecting from different hurricanes. Wild!

Secondly, I see many of the "experts" saying Rita is getting weaker. I’m no pro, but the images don’t lie, and the present data reading are 100% stable. Rita has clearly got stronger with a very well defined eye and rotation, again. Yes, there is some upper level shearing on the northern side of Rita and the friction of now hitting the LA southern coastline, but it doesn’t seem to be slowing Rita down based on all the images the last 1.5 hours.

Maybe the experts need to stop letting the computer models think for them. Noted in the latest images, Rita is already beating on the Southern Coast of Louisiana. Very bad for New Orleans with a greatly weakened levee system.

Here is the latest computer model projections. Again, wildly different from the projections just two hours ago!