Cyclonic Paracosm
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gah damn insane radar data rn from Jamacias radar
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Hurricane Melissa
- Thread starter Jacob Aden
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gah damn insane radar data rn from Jamacias radar
lake.effect
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mi gwan spit out mi drink pon di screen when mi see di radar mon 
Cyclonic Paracosm
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Noted Cappucci is on the plane.....interesting
It'll never cease to confound me how something so beautifully symmetric and dynamic is such a horrifying force of nature. Such a wonderful-looking thing that will soon bring immense pain and suffering to people who have done nothing to ask for this.
N0mz
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How in the world do you even start to get onto a hurricane hunter plane. I'd kill to be in his shoes rn though.
tornado examiner
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And to think that all the particles making up this monster will just be back in the atmosphere doing no harm to anyone in a couple weeks.
lake.effect
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I think you have to be military (Navy or Air Force) + some specialized training in physics, meteorology, etc. I don't think it's easy to get on the hunters.
Totally with you on that - I'm obsessed with the symmetry and geometry of them, so every time there's one so powerful like this I rapidly cycle between "oh wow, how incredibly cool" and "oh no, how incredibly awful".
N0mz
Member
Mission 17 just left lakeland
Cyclonic Paracosm
Member
uhm did I see that correctly? nhc has a c5 landfall in Jamacia now.....
akt1985
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Although the focus is on Jamaica, don’t forget that down the line, Melissa will impact parts of Cuba, the Bahamas and Bermuda on its current forecast track.
Seems like it.
Last C5 landfall anywhere in the Atlantic was Hurricane Dorian’s horrific stalling over the Bahamas as an 160 kt (185 mph) Category 5.
tornado examiner
Member
This thing’s annular strcture is likely to preserve its strength for many hours time come.
N0mz
Member
Hurricane warnings up for Cuba as well in the 5pm advisory. 120mph landfall forecasted.
N0mz
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This is a little bit of a tangent, but this video is a good example of how 30 inches of rain can destroy infrastructure, even if well-prepared for.
TornadoFan
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tornado examiner
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The eye is still getting smaller. Slowly. If the pressure isn’t plummeting and winds rapidly accelerating then idk what's happening.
While acknowledging how horrible it is, this will be an absolute treasure trove of data on the effects of mountains and orographic lift on hurricanes. Jamaica's Blue Mountains are already used as examples of how orographic lift works, so this will be comparing an extreme to a known baseline.
N0mz
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We should be about an hour out from mission 17 reaching the eye.