Top hurricane sat photos of all time...

[kevin]

IR imagery of hurricane Melissa at 02:55z, October 28 2025. With a CI# and final T# of 8.5 and a raw T# of 8.6 (by UW-CIMSS Automated Satellite-Based Advanced Dvorak Technique), this is quite possibly the most impressive IR image of a tropical cyclone ever captured in the Atlantic.

[sasha_B]

IR imagery of hurricane Melissa at 02:55z, October 28 2025. With a CI# and final T# of 8.5 and a raw T# of 8.6 (by UW-CIMSS Automated Satellite-Based Advanced Dvorak Technique), this is quite possibly the most impressive IR image of a tropical cyclone ever captured in the Atlantic.

https://i.imgur.com/geRujY8.jpeg

I may try to track down versions of this frame with other color maps / zooms / GOES bands at some point. Though recon data indicate that Melissa had not yet reached her peak at the time, and it's well past local sunset so there's no VIS imagery, it's an absolutely historic hurricane satellite photo; no storm globally had attained such numbers from ADT before (at least not the raw T8.6; I know Haiyan made CI 8.5).. Just as worth preserving in this thread as the various photos/loops of Melissa's landfall that have already been added, IMO.

[Category5Kaiju]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Peak season's quite tame
But October won't be the same