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    Melissa

Hurricane Melissa

tornado examiner said:
Apparently there was an 890mb reading. But it was from a discord post.
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Insane, it could honestly go into the upper 880s within the next hour before landfall.
 
From the update text:

Hurricane Melissa Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132025
1000 AM EDT Tue Oct 28 2025

...CATASTROPHIC WINDS MOVING ONSHORE SOUTHERN JAMAICA...
...LAST CHANCE TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE...
...1000 AM EDT POSITION UPDATE...

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION! TAKE
COVER NOW! Failure to adequately shelter may result in serious
injury, and loss of life. Residents in Jamaica that experience the
eye should not leave their shelter as winds will rapidly increase
within the backside of the eyewall of Melissa.

To protect yourself from wind, the best thing you can do is put as
many walls as possible between you and the outside. An interior room
without windows, ideally one where you can also avoid falling trees,
is the safest place you can be in a building. You can cover yourself
with a mattress and wear a helmet for added protection.

NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft find that Melissa continues to
strengthen with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h).The
minimum central pressure has fallen to 892 mb (26.34 inches) based
on NOAA and Hurricane Hunter Air Force Reserve aircraft data.

The next update will be provided with the full advisory package at
1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC).
 
tornado examiner said:
892mb 185mph landfall intensity officially!
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Yep, looks like it!

For those that would like to see it, the NWS issued a 10am special statement. Here's part of it:

NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft find that Melissa continues to
strengthen with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h).The
minimum central pressure has fallen to 892 mb (26.34 inches) based
on NOAA and Hurricane Hunter Air Force Reserve aircraft data.
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wx_guy said:
So has this thing seriously not had a true EWRC yet? Just mergers? How long has it been Cat 4 + 5 continuously? This is amazing to witness.
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It's been at least 24 hours now of official category 5 intensity, but honestly I think it was cat 5 well before it was officially upgraded. The fact that this thing has either sustained its extreme intensity or kept getting stronger is a testament to the ferocity of this storm. It just goes against how storms work in general - how is it possible for no EWRCs to occur at all?
 
slenker said:
It's been at least 24 hours now of official category 5 intensity, but honestly I think it was cat 5 well before it was officially upgraded. The fact that this thing has either sustained its extreme intensity or kept getting stronger is a testament to the ferocity of this storm. It just goes against how storms work in general - how is it possible for no EWRCs to occur at all?
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Defying physics.
 
Smokedevil said:
It will quite literally alter the landscape on the coast, and ground scouring will be EF 5 like.
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I can guarantee you that there won't be any EF5, probably not even any EF4 level structural damage from this storm. Hurricanes simply do not do what tornadoes do when it comes to wind damage. The flooding and surge, on the other hand, is the far bigger issue.
 
slenker said:
I can guarantee you that there won't be any EF5, probably not even any EF4 level structural damage from this storm. Hurricanes simply do not do what tornadoes do when it comes to wind damage. The flooding and surge, on the other hand, is the far bigger issue.
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The slow movement tho? Thats hours of cat 5 winds.
I'm not disagreeing, just generally curious.
 
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