Laurent // Vernadsky // Ferreker

Weather forecaster at Météo-France Martiniqu, personnal account.
Be careful what you wish for.

[Laurent // Vernadsky // Ferreker @L__Bavard]

Tere tulemast
à ceux qui le méritent.
Sitapea oled sa
aux autres.

[Andy Hazelton @AndyHazelton]

From the 5 am NHC discussion for #Polo:
"The intensification rate over the past 24 hours
is truly remarkable, with Polo strengthening by about 90 kt over that time period."

From yesterday's 11 am discussion:
"Every model responds to these conditions by
showing rapid intensification, and the SHIPS rapid intensification index is showing percentages as high as I have ever seen them. The new forecast is raised from the previous one and is very aggressive, but still below the latest HCCA corrected-consensus aid, which verbatim would be at least a 99th percentile event for intensification."

Very well-anticipated RI event. Kudos to NHC.

This has been one of the things I've been most excited to see during my career so far: we're getting better in our ability to predict RI. Not perfect, but with tools like SHIPS-RI, HAFS, Google DeepMind, and forecaster awareness, we can get it right a lot more than we did 10-15 years ago.

Definitely curious what our flight into #Polo will hold today. Looks like it could be my second Cat5 flight (first being Melissa last year).

[Tomer Burg @burgwx]

Hurricane Polo continues to rapidly improve in structure, with an eye clearing out on visible satellite & two vortical hot towers rotating around its nascent small eyewall.

Combined with ambient moisture, very high SST & low shear, an extreme intensification rate is imminent.

[Alex Boreham @cyclonicwx]

#Polo is clearing out an eye with vortical hot towers around it as recon leaves. It found a core developing and pressures dropping into the 970s. Likely to see very rapid intensification soon. NHC forecast is about as high as you'll see it for a storm of this strength

[Vilain Syndicaliste @VL_syndicaliste]

Voici le temps de parole donné aux partis politiques sur France Inter, qu'on nous présente comme faisant de la propagande de LFI.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

The AZF fertilizer factory in Toulouse, France explodes, killing 31 people and injuring 2,500. Two-thirds of all the windows in the city are shattered, and at least 70 people are blinded.

The total cost of damage is estimated to be €1.5 billion.

France’s Minister of the Environment, Yves Cochet, says that the explosion “may have been a terrorist attack” and identifies the suspected perpetrator as Hassan Jandoubi, a Tunisian contractor who was killed in the blast.

Authorities are suspicious, as Jandoubi’s girlfriend begins destroying evidence immediately, but they are able to ascertain that he had been gaining “Islamic fundamentalist radicalization.”

[Rima Hassan @RimaHas]

🚨Les révélations de Complément d’enquête nous apprennent que le ministre de l’Intérieur, @NunezLaurent a personnellement relayé auprès de la presse de fausses informations concernant la détention de drogue lors de mon audition.

Rappelez-vous : sur les plateaux de télévision, il disait pourtant « regretter »ces fuites.

Cette manipulation politique crasse a assez duré. Il doit en tirer les conséquences et démissionner !

https://t.co/kgbRxnc5hy

[Laurent // Vernadsky // Ferreker @L__Bavard]

@LaurentVergne Je laisse des commentaires très subjectifs et sans prétention aucune : https://t.co/PlEfQQKVyh

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The National Weather Service in Buffalo, New York oversees marine forecasts for the entire U.S. side of what, since 1641, has been known as Lake Ontario.

But the National Weather Service can't say "Lake Ontario" anymore – per President Trump's Executive Order 14422, it's Lake America or nothing.

Today, the Buffalo office got a bit... creative... in referring to "our eastern Great Lake."

No directives were broken. The lake was never named.

[Tomer Burg @burgwx]

just like all the tabs in my 4 open browsers

[Rima Hassan @RimaHas]

2009 t-shirt porté par des soldats israéliens “1 tir 2 morts” ciblant les femmes palestiniennes enceintes.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

We are officially entering “Global Water Bankruptcy”.

The UN has announced that we will start running out of clean water (drinking, cooking, showering, dishes, laundry, etc.) in the next few years.

Water won't always be free. When clean water becomes scarce, it will be privatized, priced, and controlled. You will pay for it. And those who can't pay won't survive.

Data centers don’t actually need water. Data centers need cooling system and they are using water because it’s the most cheapest way to do it. Water should be for people before profits.

The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

THE SOUTH TOWER OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER HAS COMPLETELY COLLAPSED.

The entire building, all 110 floors, has pancaked into the ground. Massive clouds of pulverized concrete and gypsum rush through the streets, covering tens of thousands of people in dust and obscuring Lower Manhattan altogether.

Father Mychal Judge, chaplain to the FDNY, is struck by fallen debris and dies instantly. He is the first confirmed and identified death today, but there must be tens of thousands of dead.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

AN AIRCRAFT HAS STRUCK THE PENTAGON.

Traveling at a high rate of speed close to the ground, the plane slammed into the building’s west side, starting a violent fire.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Donna Spera, who has made it down from the South Tower’s 78th-floor Sky Lobby, describes the scene as a “gore floor.”

Over 200 people were gathered in the Sky Lobby when the second plane crashed into the South Tower, dousing almost everyone in jet fuel as the ceiling and walls caved in. The room is a “sea of dismembered limbs and heads.”

One other survivor describes seeing people burning alive, unable to move, begging for death, as he made his way downstairs.

Spera is covered in burns and is carried from the building.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

According to the Epstein files, it’s children.

[MattyG @meawoppl]

Wife told me these wouldn’t fit.

Little did she know I had trained for this moment for years.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning the village of Haris in South Lebanon.

A centuries-old village is being deliberately set ablaze and destroyed in broad daylight — before the eyes of the entire world.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

We are deeply alarmed by the disturbing reports of #HussamAbuSafiya being subjected to continued beatings, deliberate sleep deprivation, and threats against divulging his detention conditions while in Israeli custody.

Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya and all Palestinians arbitrary detained. Pending Dr. Hussam’s release, the Israeli Prison Service must ensure he is fully protected from abuse, granted urgent adequate and independent medical care and allowed immediate visitation by independent monitors.

Act now: https://t.co/MJ9DKJSpXg
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Band of Brothers, a new epic WWII miniseries, premieres on HBO.

With a budget of $125 million, it is the most-expensive television miniseries ever made.