Nibor

I haven’t kept up in the forecasting thread. What’s the seasonal outlook for the PAC jet? Another blowtorch?

My apartment flooded. So lucky I was home and able to deal with it.

I think on journalistic level there is an importance to storm chasing. I can overlook some of the narcissism that comes with it (incoming cliche) as that's pretty much baked into every aspect of society nowadays due to social media.

Worried about Santiago de Cuba. Second largest city in the country.

Some storms are just anomalously resilient. Melissa seems like one of those.

Daybreak to landfall

One of us

Aircraft recon flew in circles around in the eye.

It almost looks like whatever restructuring occurred in the early morning hours allowed for the eye to expand a bit.

Stall to wobble north.

Past ~30ish hours of just a wobbling crawl.

Certainly looks like it. Let's see if this is the beginning of a change towards a north/north east move.

I believe Milton did as well when it peaked.