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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
The only one I could find that made a sharp turn was Mitch, didn't seem to significantly weaken when making the turn, but did weaken gradually not too long after. Matthew maintained Cat 4 strength well after the turn, but did weaken slightly -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
The wind field seems to be expanding a bit per recon -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Could be a little bit of upwelling too. She's been crawling along -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Hard to believe it's nearly 3 days from landfall based on that radar image. For context, Jamaica is about the size of Connecticut -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
No doubt that the Euro has outperformed the GFS on this one, with the NHC being remarkably consistent -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Anyone have an idea of the construction quality in Kingston? I. Know a lot of these Carribean islands are pretty well constructed cinder block buildings, but poor areas/slums may be vulnerable. Obviously flooding a huge concern regardless -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
I do think that if this rapidly intensifies overnight or Tommorow it is very likely to go through an ERC before landfall on Jamaica. Timing will be key if that is the case, but the conditions support a relatively quick ERC more often than not, so not sure that's a good thing with wind field expansion and wider footprint of flooding rains -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Recon reporting a much more organized storm this morning. Well defined center, pressure down towards 1002 mb, LLC had been pulled under the robust convection -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Land interaction actual may help it to wind up at that approach angle, at least for a while. The island is small enough to not choke off the storm too much unless it gets really close -
Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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Major Hurricane Melissa - 892mb - 185mph Jamaica landfall
olafminesaw replied to GaWx's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Focus is naturally on whether this will be a US threat, but I am very concerned about possible impacts of a slow moving hurricane passing directly over the Caribbean islands. Particularly Haiti which is under a significant humanitarian disaster from ongoing gang violence and political turmoil -
And the Sandhills all the way to near the coast. Just inland from Jaxonville got down into the upper 30s
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Alas seems pretty paltry West of I95
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2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season
olafminesaw replied to BarryStantonGBP's topic in Tropical Headquarters
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2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season
olafminesaw replied to BarryStantonGBP's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Could be the first season since 2015 without a land falling US hurricane. Ironic given that 2015 featured Joaquin, which like Imelda was forecasted to hook into the coast from the Bahamas a few days out but exited stage right instead -
No landfall would be a big win for the Euro AI
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I think it has a lot more to do with slower development of Imelda and slower speed
