It's still out there, a tight swirl cranking away southwest of Hawaii,
about to creep out of GOES range, and seemingly near or over
tropical-storm strength again (from my examinationg of a vis-loop at
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ , with a giant, over-shooting
blow-up just at sunset...it looks like it could easily wind up all the
way to hurricane again in the central Pacific.

What I can't fathom is why the Navy kept an eye on it for three days as
a convection-free swirl, then dropped coverage just as it was reaquiring
convection.

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