LostCosmonaut Posted August 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 Tropics are putting on a big show in the Pacific. Hector is near Cat 5 and will brush Hawaii (shouldn't be too bad); (satellite resolution is bad because GOES-16 is at a pretty high angle, it's meant for storms further east) Meanwhile, John is rapidly intensifying and murdering Ileana; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted August 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 Hawaii is under the gun, for real this time; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted September 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2018 Gonna get real on the east coast soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LostCosmonaut Posted September 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Wonder if anyone set up a camera here? http://www.fptower.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted September 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Hurricane Erin, exactly 17 years ago; If you look closely, you can see smoke from New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted September 12, 2018 Report Share Posted September 12, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted September 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Also, per NHC, stations onshore are starting to report sustained hurricane force winds. ...700 PM POSITION UPDATE... ...SUSTAINED HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS OCCURRING AT CAPE LOOKOUT NORTH CAROLINA... A NOAA observing site at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, recently reported a sustained wind of 82 mph (131 km/h) and a gust to 97 mph (156 km/h). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 @LostCosmonaut @Sturgeon FAKE NEWS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted September 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 TWC overdramatizes shit, news at 11. There is a shitload of flooding going on, the main threat from this system is the rain (as anyone who read the actual NHC advisories would know). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMerlon Posted September 15, 2018 Report Share Posted September 15, 2018 I'm currently in the middle of North Carolina. Most of the immediate concern here is the flooding. Aside from simply swamping things with water, the other big issue is that our sandy soil doesn't absorb water well, meaning that things like trees and telephone poles have tendency to become loose and then fall. Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted September 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2018 Possible medicane next week https://twitter.com/weather_king/status/1043944671184125952 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 The Florida Panhandle has never been hit by a category 4 storm. That might be about to change; I'm not 100% sure, but I think -90C cloud tops corresponds to an altitude of about 60,000 feet. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 Quote The landfall intensity was estimated at 135 kt (155 mph), which makes Michael the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the continental U.S. since Andrew (1992). The minimum pressure at landfall was estimated at 919 mb, which is the third lowest landfall pressure in the United States. A University of Florida/Weatherflow observing site measured a minimum pressure of 920.2 mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael also resulted in the appearance of the rarest NWS advisory, the Extreme Wind Warning. The Extreme Wind Warning was created after the 2005 season, when NWS offices in Mississippi and Louisiana issued tornado warnings for counties that were going to be affected by Katrina's winds, but weren't actually getting hit by tornadoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juretrn Posted October 10, 2018 Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 On 9/24/2018 at 1:24 AM, LostCosmonaut said: Possible medicane next week https://twitter.com/weather_king/status/1043944671184125952 I was there, some roads got flooded and some trees got ripped out... otherwise, it was just loads of rain for a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LostCosmonaut Posted October 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Remnants of Leslie are about to hit Portugal with near hurricane winds. Here's the trackmap for the storm's life; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted January 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 However, one look at any of the forecast soundings shows how impressive/deep the stratospheric intrusion is/will be -- with the tropopause (the separation between the troposphere and stratosphere) expected to fall to as low as 3kft- 4kft AGL this afternoon -- which is almost unheard of for these latitudes. This is what truly speaks to the rarity of this pattern that has evolved, even if daily records are not met/exceeded. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=ILN&product=AFD&format=CI&version=3&glossary=1&highlight=off Stratosphere is getting ridiculously low Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 mickey_consolidated* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 It snowed on Hawaii. https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Hawaii-recorded-what-may-be-the-lowest-elevation-13607099.php On Sunday, Maui's 10,000-foot Haleakala received a thick dusting and snow also accumulated at 6,200 feet in Polipoli State Recreation Area. Officials at the Department of Land and Natural Resources say this could mark the lowest-elevation snowfall ever recorded in the state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted March 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 Some interesting things going on in the Southern hemisphere. First, Australia is under threat from two different tropical cyclones, Veronica and Trevor; More unusually, several models are forecasting development of a fairly deep warm-core cyclone off the southeast coast of Brazil. (GFS and Canadian model also show it but keep it weaker) South Atlantic tropical cyclones are highly rare, with only one known to have reached hurricane strength; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Catarina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted March 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2019 Invest 90Q is live; https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/storms/90Q.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted April 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2019 Hurricane Michael is posthumously a Category 5 at landfall; https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/hurricane-michael-upgraded-to-category-5-at-time-of-us-landfall Only the 4th to hit CONUS in recorded history (if you count outlying possessions, the US actually got hit by two category 5 storms in 2018). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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