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Otis: Tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in 24h
- swader999 3y agoCity of one million, this is bad.
- darknavi 3y agoI've never really paid too much attention to NOAA releases. Are they normally this impassioned? > A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico this evening with rapidly intensifying Otis approaching the coastline.
- margalabargala 3y agoThey can get pretty colorful. The 2005 hurricane season had some NOAA releases so interesting that xkcd did a comic on them https://xkcd.com/1126/ https://xkcd.com/1126/
- altairprime 3y agoYes, they're often impassioned when they're deadly serious, emphasis on the deadly, about the impact of the weather. They generally write with more humanity than might be expected of any other service — but they also so often bear awful news that is so often summarily ignored, that I can't fault them for their impassioned pleas to 'please, pay attention to us, it will prevent your avoidable deaths'.
- 19h 3y agoI've been following the storm on Windy[1] for a few hours and it's really insane how massive it is.. [1] https://www.windy.com/-Satellite-satellite?satellite,18.937,-95.273,6,m:d4Yadpl https://www.windy.com/-Satellite-satellite?satellite,18.937,...
- jfengel 3y agoI have not seen that site before. The flashes are lighting, I take it? Nifty.
- orwin 3y agoTheir wind and storm predictions are really accurate, I use them every time I go on a mountain hike. I think windguru is still a bit better for sailing.
- hnburnsy 3y agoIDK, Tammy look much worse at this time...https://www.windy.com/25.065/-60.732?22.166,-60.732,6 https://www.windy.com/25.065/-60.732?22.166,-60.732,6
- gardnr 3y agoI don't think massive is a good word for it. The supporting systems around it are not of the usual size for a storm of this intensity. It's easy to miss it on the wind map but then, all of a sudden, there are 75kt winds right around Acapulco. https://www.windy.com/?17.049,-98.761,5 https://www.windy.com/?17.049,-98.761,5
- armatav 3y agoEven though this is in Mexico, the beginning of this year has taught me to expect PG&E outages all across the Bay Area.
- r00fus 3y agoMy area dropped for 3 days due to a stiff breeze with 20mph gusts.
- armatav 3y agoAmateur hour at PG&E for the past 10 years
- oldbbsnickname 3y ago2018 Camp Fire survivor enters the chat. Let me tell you about PSPSes and living on generator for weeks at a time for 4-5x per summer. Home insurance tripled. Bounced to SW TX after 45 years.
- pfdietz 3y agoPoor Acapulco.
- defrost 3y agoUnsurprisingly more energy trapped in the land|sea layer than in years past leads to: Hurricanes are now twice as likely to zip from minor to whopper than decades ago, study says https://phys.org/news/2023-10-hurricanes-minor-whopper-decades.html https://phys.org/news/2023-10-hurricanes-minor-whopper-decad... With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said Thursday. Andra J. Garner, Observed increases in North Atlantic tropical cyclone peak intensification rates Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42669-y. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42669-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42669-y
- scythe 3y agoNot mentioned is that this is the second time this year that a hurricane has undergone nearly record-breaking rapid intensification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lee_(2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lee_(2023)
- boot13 3y agoYikes. https://www.ventusky.com/?p=14.8;-99.7;5&l=satellite&t=20231025/0410 https://www.ventusky.com/?p=14.8;-99.7;5&l=satellite&t=20231...
- GaunterODimm 3y agoMost of 24h predictions showed Category 1 or below: https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1716972676471021754 https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1716972676471021754 Quite a reminder about our forecasting capabilities.
- danielovichdk 3y agoI dont see a 5 on any models at all.
- hnburnsy 3y agoCheck this...https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/18E_intensity_latest.png https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/18E_intensity_late...
- itsanaccount 3y agoAint that the issue. As the weather becomes more chaotic, the models become less useful. An observation that has caused me a lot of thoughts as we slide into our climate changes we've made this century. Greetings from a warm and balmy late October in Michigan.
- RetroTechie 3y agoAny HN users in the area? Plz. report? (if internet & power isn't down)