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Tropical Banter Thread


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5 hours ago, SN_Lover said:

You tell me a hurricane that strengthened windspeed's in 30kt+ shear. 

You have posted nothing but terrible "information" since the thread started, just FYI.

Seriously I haven't seen one of your posts that was anything but silly hypotheticals and needless posturing.

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2 minutes ago, andyhb said:

You have posted nothing but terrible "information" since the thread started, just FYI.

Seriously I haven't seen one of your posts that was anything but silly hypotheticals and needless posturing.

I'm waiting on your analysis of a warm core hurricane that strengthened wind speed's in 30kt shear also....

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4 minutes ago, SN_Lover said:

I'm waiting on your analysis of a warm core hurricane that strengthened wind speed's in 30kt shear also....

Hurricane Matthew last year.

I already said not to ignore shear in the main thread as well, but as usual you probably didn't read that.

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13 minutes ago, Chinook said:

somebody referred to a LHF with regard to a large circulation in the other thread. Anybody know what that is?

I just figured it out. Latent heat flux. The upward motion, connected with latent heat release, is the engine inside a hurricane.  The person saying this may have been referring to this: The latent heat flux is too spread out when the 64kt + winds are too wide, leading to a broad lowering of SLP, rather than concentrated (??)

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Interesting tweets from Meteorologist Mike Ventrice (@MJVentrice) about 10 days ago (August 31st)! Mike noted the very high intensity max of 165-175 kt. Well as it turned out, the EPS mean track was sort of right (not exactly) and the potential for higher CAT-5 winds was indicated.

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Not predicting this but what if we see a sub 900 mb cat 4?  Weenie discontent lol

 

 

 

If, and that's a big if, Irma were to rapidly intensify to a sub 900 mb pressure, the eyewall would have to be intense as such that a strong prssure gradient would support Cat 5 intensity even within its surrounding lower background pressures. Don't see that happening but, of course, not impossible. If this maintains Cat 4 wind speeds up the western coastline, the destruction will be sobering and immense. Even if it were a Cat 3, the wind field is huge.

 

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Hurricanes always come stamped with their category inside of the eye. Ironically, when this happened, with Hurricane Wilma (2005), the NHC upgraded it to a Cat-3. This is a real radar image with a few bits in the eye that look like a "2". Please note this is from October 2005 (Hurricane Wilma)

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