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[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@sophiashines3 @BackpirchCrew At landfall, it is officially the lowest recorded pressure (2nd worldwide behind Labor Day 1935). But there was a measurement of 878 mbars when Meranti passed over Itbayat, PH. In general sense including every typhoons in Pacific with or without landfall, it isnt among top 25.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@Dondrumpf7 @NbergWX How about the dry air?

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@JiveTurkey56 @webberweather Maybe only you. It doesn't change the fact a very strong storm made landfall in Atlantic

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@Texansfan243 @AndyHazelton 2024 has a record-breaking start (Beryl). Also, 2024/5 are both La Niñas.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@LaneSiegen45862 @RoseWX5 @BackpirchCrew Really?

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@JiveTurkey56 @webberweather Landfall in US? Nothing. But you didn't say about US or about a landfall at all. Jamaica experienced a 160kts landfall.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@Northie_Stangl @AaronLoweWX @DylanFedericoWX @webberweather Its their worst hurricane since Fabian in 2003

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@JiveTurkey56 @webberweather Really? Erin, Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda, and especially Melissa?

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@Northie_Stangl @AaronLoweWX @DylanFedericoWX @webberweather Gonzalo

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@FFinkral @MyRadarWX Does this look like an EF2 damage?

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@ShadowDragons77 @creator00100 Not always. Recent WPAC recon doesn't prove it at all.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@JonnyTheWX @ContentWxGuy @EliThePitBull + Parma although I am unsure about it since the peak is too short.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@JonnyTheWX @ContentWxGuy @EliThePitBull Well Bopha is unlikely the strongest of 2012. There is Sanba. I'd argue the start of new wave of strong WPAC typhoons is 2009 (although WPAC most likely had a C5 every year since 2000, except 2017). Nida, Megi, Muifa, and Sanba are most likely stronger than Bopha.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@AndreaDona60 @BackpirchCrew Well you are arguing against the data by NHC as well. And when did the damage in the first photo 1 become worse than the one in photo 2 (which is indeed from a 195 mph storm)

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@AndreaDona60 @BackpirchCrew Look at the house and the trees. That is not 225 at all not even 190. Haiyan's damage in Guiuan in Philippines is what 190+ winds damage look like

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@AndreaDona60 @BackpirchCrew NHC didnt use that to represent the landfall intensity because many factors may have lead to that reading (e.g. elevation, structures around it, the anemometer itself etc). They even downgraded it from 190 -> 175.
For reference this is what 195+ mph damage looks

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@AndreaDona60 @BackpirchCrew It is impossible it is indeed 225 mph. Wind damage doesn't even support 190 mph. The anemometer may have been elevated or experienced funneling effect

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@IPTCWCDirector @zeb199818 2026 now has a 160kts and a 155kts storm. To date 2015 has 150/140/140, 1997 has 145/140, 1982 doesn't even have any C5 to date.

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@IPTCWCDirector @zeb199818 Seems they went with 155kts

[Ron SE @Ronse9698]

@McManusWx @xiaoqianWX @IPTCWCDirector There are apparently two signals for another long tracker behind Bavi (according to FNV3 now). This could put 2026 ahead of 1997, and on par with 02/04/15. 1997 is actually around top 10 but not very high on ACE rankings to date up until October when they went far and away.