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  1. Normandy Ho
    Big winds now starting to come out to play
  2. Normandy Ho
    This is one of the funniest weather moments of my life. Glad I could share it with yall
  3. Normandy Ho
    LMAO
  4. Normandy Ho
    It's rotating so fast it looks like the damn lighting strikes are being thrown around the eyewall.
  5. Normandy Ho
    Windspeed that shit is not safe for work....got me sweating looking at it
  6. Normandy Ho
    You have a whole bunch of them at the NHC. I kid I kid
  7. Normandy Ho
    Look man I hear you....but every single storm I've seen that looks this vicious has been either sub 900 or 180+ mph. We shall see soon
  8. Normandy Ho
    Revising my call. 883 mbs. 160 knots. New record holder. Looks to nasty on satellite to ignore.
  9. Normandy Ho
    That's what I wanted to say but I'm too chickenshit
  10. Normandy Ho
    We are at the point now where I think the question isn't if it's a category 5 anymore....the question is how strong of a Cat 5 it is. On pins and needles waiting for recon now. My guess: 155 knots. 904 mb.
  11. Normandy Ho
    Might be a troichoidal wobble, but in general its westward motion has stopped/stalled for now
  12. Normandy Ho
    One interesting trend I am seeing today is this is diving southward further east. Not sure if it has any implications on future track (perhaps a pro met / knowledgeable poster can chime in)
  13. Normandy Ho
    NHC is behind bigtime on current intensity
  14. Normandy Ho
    I think the long wait for our nuclear carribean hurricane might be over. IR is looking quite vicious right now
  15. Normandy Ho
    My question: What turns it west like that? Its recurving and then it stops on a dime right before it hits Florida
  16. Normandy Ho
    This is one of the craziest recoveries I have ever seen from a cane crossing the Yucatan. This morning it was a naked swirl and now has multiple hot towers/mesos rotating around a closed eye. Wild stuff.
  17. Normandy Ho
    Just observing the convection rotating much faster around the eye now, I think they find some big winds.
  18. Normandy Ho
    Honestly it wouldn't surprise me. From what I have learned so far about tornadoes is that they seem to parallel tropical cyclones in some ways. This one especially because it was wrapped in an envelope of high winds. Wouldn't really surprise me if the center was calm like they eye of a strong hurricane. I was thinking earlier, going through Hurricane Wilma while she was 884 mbs wouldn't be much different than the Joplin tornado. It would only be slightly wider damage swath lol.
  19. Normandy Ho
    What accounts suggest there was a calm in the center of the tornado? From every video I've seen (One on the lawn and gas station), there was no actual calm. There was an initial burst of high wind (like 70 - 100 mph), followed by the tornado which raged continuously until passing. I've only gathered from discussion that the tornado was wrapped in an envelope of high winds.
  20. Normandy Ho
    In Jeff's video you can see how strong the winds were far from the wedge (2:24 or so). Very interesting how it had an intense core surrounded by damaging winds....almost sounds like a tropical cyclone on a super micro-scale.
  21. Normandy Ho
    For me these two videos tell the story of Joplin's terror. First one shows the experience riding it out (audio only though), second one shows what actually happened to the gas station. Incredible that they survived a direct hit from an EF-5 tornado (I'd say this is EF-4 / EF-5 damage, the twisted and mangled steel is beyond incredible).
  22. Normandy Ho
    The Hospital damage is a great case study of what violent tornadoes could do to sturdy and well built structures. Large high-rises will remain standing, but completely gutted and denuded in some spots (like the top where only the steel frame is visible). Does anyone know if the hospital is salvageable?
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