This post is misleading. “Extreme cold warnings” were known as “Wind chill warnings” before 2024, and the last time all of central Florida had wind chill warnings was 15 years ago.
To give you a sense of how incredibly rare and unique Hurricane #MELISSA is, here are the most-intense landfalling Atlantic hurricanes that we have on record.
MELISSA is now tied with LABOR DAY 1935 at the top – something I'd never imagine to see in my lifetime.
had a real big brain moment here and didn’t mention which direction I was facing. if anyone wants to know it was NNE - probably ~20°. here’s our location and the KHTX scan from around the time those were taken
i’m sooo spoiled from my online classes in middle and high school where we were expected to think critically … now i’m being hit with “write 2-3 sentences about this whole chapter” and there’s no other interaction or discussion. i’m so sick of this
One last post on this topic. This is an infographic I made showing what different orientations of velocity couplets imply, and how the different combinations of divergence and vorticity tend to evolve according to the vorticity equation.