yes, but how much it weakens is quite important. a larger eye will be more robust and hold together better in a high shear situation. the question is how well it will hold itself together before landfall and with the developments tonight, it's going to hold itself better than just about all the storm models think already. pinhole eyes are very intense but sensitive to shear, dry air, and other factors which might disrupt it. btw all storm specific models thought the inner eyewall would maintain after yucatan and we'd end up with a pinhole eye going into the shear, this changes everything
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