Claims News Service, August 4, 1:36 p.m. EDT — According to a report from ReAdvisory, a service of reinsurance intermediary Carvill, Tropical Storm Chris has significantly weakened and rapidly become disorganized. Chris' sea level circulation has become detached from its upper level structure and it is rapidly spinning down. It is unlikely it will gain status as the first hurricane of the 2006 season.

The NHC is somewhat at a loss to explain why this is happening, according to the report. Chris appeared to have been impacted by windshear in its northeasterly quadrant. However, the levels of shear (approx. 20 knots) are roughly the same, if not smaller, than the levels of shear that were present when Chris first formed. Further, Chris is now picking up the dry air that it managed to successfully keep out while it was forming.

Why Chris should have ignored the shear and the dry air during formation but is affected by it now is unknown. This situation goes to prove that, while experts understand much of the science of tropical cyclones, they are a long way from understanding them completely.

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