Unless she hits high mountains, she will probably not have much in the way of decreasing intensity regardless of land interaction.

She was just having some birthing pains with her new eyewall earlier. Even if she loses wind speed now, her overall intensity is still off the damn charts due to her massive size. For historic reference see Sandy.

When a cyclonic storm gets to be a certain geographic size (in this case EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA large), the wind speed matters less and less. The reason is, the storm is so large it will expose the land mass under it to much longer periods of her wrath.


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