Exposed center of Kirk approaching the islands and the thunderstorms are right behind it.
We can call this the calm before the storm in a weird way since most tropical systems you experience the outer bands ahead of the center. In this case the center is exposed so the islands will feel a calm until the center passes then a rapid change in the weather with heavy rains, squally conditions with strong gust to tropical storm force will occur.
I been noticing in the latest color satellite imagery that the thunderstorms east and northeast of center have caught up to center and are trying to rap around the northeast side of the center.
This could be due to a slowing of the forward speed of the storm on approach to the islands or the wind shear relaxed a bit allowing for the thunderstorms to catch up with the center. Regardless of this, the upper level conditions are still forecast to be strong in the Caribbean and weakening and possible dissipation of this system is possible...RTW
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