Castaway

Waiting for the next frame. If it’s starting to look like I think it’s starting to look, the eye is looking insane and with potentially more strengthing ahead.

Some of those classic high end EPAC hurricanes remind me of a spinning skateboard wheel that got caught in seaweed or something lol Lee appears to have popped an eye couple hrs ago. Confirmed tower action formed southwest of the circulation earlier with it wrapping around full circle now.

Speaking of Shrimp, after eyeballing this thing on satellite loop past hrs lol, I kept recalling Dorian when it was in its shrimp phase before taking off and eventually becoming a beast. Even though Dorian developed it more west around Barbados I believe. Catching similar vibes, especially if it’s headed on track towards the east side of the Bahamas area. Might be premature, but wouldn’t be surprised this is hurricane status after a few more cycles in the next few hours or so.

Nice! The general area of circulation has become more evident from watching it on and off past hours. It’s getting it’s act together.

Still early obviously, but there’s definitely an ominous overall feel to this one imo. Especially being this far out, and with the broad turning in the low levels as mentioned earlier. This looks like it has a strong potential of displaying a mean buzzsaw representation in the incoming future with a broad robust CDO doughnut .

Denver got 99’d yesterday? Just 1 French fry away from a 100. ruff.

Yeah it was definitely nice. Was under the overshoot for awhile here in Oak Brook. Constant rumbling.

Yeah just had a visual looking outside. Some nice explosive looking towers popped up

Was able to catch some timelapse footage, looking West towards Glen Ellyn, between Roosevelt Rd. and Butterfield Rd. Will post more.

Well, that was a surprise. It really was trying to drop tornadoes around. I was busy today and didn’t really look into it much. Seemed weird. Initial thoughts walking out/quickly gauging it, reminded me of some cold funnel set up day. With rotations around/some funnels etc. Came home and saw the velocity scans. Didn’t expect to see some of the videos out in Elgin and the damages in countryside etc The scan earlier over by countryside seemed one of the better ones. Will be interesting to see some videos from there.

Rotation getting together just west of Batavia

lol. The ol days where being in red meant imminent death. These days it depends on the phone. Red now will carry you for hours no prob.

Wonder if there’s a chance it’s being over done on having the low starting out as fast. Which would have it a tick south. Having it more west on Friday than what’s being shown right now on some models. Thinking at least 2” for the Chicago area.

Anyone see the “face” in the SE? lol captured just now

Here by Oak Brook small to medium branches down. Nothing crazy, but I didn’t expect much. I was watching it outside for a bit. Thought the 2 cells would split through here and continue sliding SE. Then, it started shifting a little more easterly. Afterward 15mins or so, saw a shelf cloud appear and start rolling in. And had nice gusts. About 100ft row of branches going across the street. One of the more severe “events” IMBY/ neighborhood this year lol. Wouldn’t guess in September. But not surprised either considering the multiple touchdowns we had in the dupage area lately past couple years now.

Some of the lightning/thunder that just passed through sounded epic. I was watching south seeing flashes in the distance with the rolling thunder going across. At one point it sounded like it had a helicopter chopper cutting up the deep thunder thinking from bouncing off the terrain etc. Sometimes these late night storms have some of the best storm sound. Top stuff.

I’m 88 and 83. Feeling the same

It’s still there on Radar. It started flaking here nicely in Oak Brook and saw it on radar a bit ago as well.

Noticed the dew point drop on the nam earlier with the drier air pushing in. Was thinking it made sense why the sharp cut off is the there in the northern counties. But wasn’t sure if it’s over done etc

Had a sense earlier it’s May and not December. Being 58 right now with my balcony door cracked for a couple hours watching this. Especially this long tracked tornado with insane debris signatures…

Sam seemed to struggle yesterday on the sw quadrant as well for awhile. Just remembering observing it yesterday for hours. Beauty representation earlier. Looks good now, despite the skidding on the sw. Based on pure hunch and eyeballing, it should kick out again and produce some acts of major+ characteristics next hours into tomorrow.

Current mesos appear in tandem. appears a more northern/nw track once and if the other meso swings around east