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8 minutes ago, BYG Jacob said:

Not in the Gulf

Rita was 895---Once in the Gulf of Mexico, Rita passed over the extremely warm Loop Current during the midday hours of September 21, enabling continued strengthening. As a result, the hurricane's wind field significantly expanded and the storm's barometric pressure quickly fell.[4] By 18:00 UTC that day, Rita attained Category 5 hurricane intensity,[13] the highest category on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.[14] Rita's intensification phase was accompanied by an unprecedentedly abundant outbreak of lightning within the storm's eyewall.[15] Favorable conditions allowed for additional strengthening, and at 0300 UTC on September 22, Rita reached its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (285 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 895 mbar (hPa; 26.43 inHg), making it the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico and up until that point the third strongest hurricane in Atlantic history.[4][16][17] At the time, it was located 310 mi (500 km) south of the Mississippi River Delta.[4]

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Hi everyone! Please keep the banter and imby questions in the banter thread. If you find your posts disappearing, this would be a clue to take it to banter. 
 

Now back to your regular cat 5 hurricane discussion and thanks for coming to my Ted talk :D 

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Just now, beanskip said:

Meanwhile, the HAFS-B gets Milton down to 884 mb at 9z Wednesday, then increases by a whopping 71 mb in the next 18 hours.

The way things are going, not sure which of those is less believable. 

Some of that may be after Landfall?

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Just now, allgame830 said:

Milton is really maxing out its potential in the area that it is in. Historical! Hopefully the west coast of FL sees nothing like what we are seeing now

Damage is already being done. The lower this thing goes, the more surge it begins to carry along. Even if winds start to ease, surge is going to be devastating 

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1 minute ago, beanskip said:

Meanwhile, the HAFS-B gets Milton down to 884 mb at 9z Wednesday, then increases by a whopping 71 mb in the next 18 hours.

The way things are going, not sure which of those is less believable. 

Insane run. But the other models have started to thwart the weakening and dry air/shear combo closer into LF, so it’s hard to say. That will be more of a short term nowcast I’d say. Even at that 71mb weakening it sits at the same 955mb the GFS is at on the shore of the bay. 

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