NATL: MELISSA - Hurricane - Discussion

[zzzh]

Dropsonde 895mb 7kt

[ScottNAtlanta]

Just fyi 175kts = 200mph

[ROCK]

Someone is going to lose a shingle with those winds speeds.

[aspen]

A modern day Labor Day Hurricane unfolding before us, holy cow.

[sbcc]

Someone is going to lose a shingle with those winds speeds.

Maybe more than a single shingle.

[Extratropical94]

219 knots on the eyewall drop. This is insane

[wx98]

Looks like the AF plane is going home. Must be shaken up.

[Hurricane2022]

Saved screenshot

[zzzh]

This is just another level

[dukeblue219]

Looks like the AF plane is going home. Must be shaken up.

Never got a VDM did we? And just a lone sonde in the eye? Must be crazy in there right now. I can only hope everyone is ok.

[ScottNAtlanta]

With an official intensity of 892 mb / 160 kt, Melissa now holds the records of:

• 3rd lowest pressure, behind Wilma and Gilbert, and tied with Labor Day
• 2nd highest wind speed, behind Allen, and tied with Labor Day, Gilbert, Wilma and Dorian
• Lowest pressure and highest wind speed at landfall if maintained until then, tied with Labor Day for both (and Dorian for wind speed)

Wasn't Camille 200mph?

[Teban54]

[Beef Stew]

We're really about to get the (tied) most intense Atlantic landfall on record... in Jamaica of all places. Absurd.

[Fancy1002]

219 knots on the eyewall drop. This is insane

Would that justify an upgrade to 190 or 195?

[Iune]

With an official intensity of 892 mb / 160 kt, Melissa now holds the records of:

• 3rd lowest pressure, behind Wilma and Gilbert, and tied with Labor Day
• 2nd highest wind speed, behind Allen, and tied with Labor Day, Gilbert, Wilma and Dorian
• Lowest pressure and highest wind speed at landfall if maintained until then, tied with Labor Day for both (and Dorian for wind speed)

Wasn't Camille 200mph?

Reanalysis in 2014 brought Camille's peak down to 175 mph. I believe it was 190 mph beforehand.

[Fancy1002]

With an official intensity of 892 mb / 160 kt, Melissa now holds the records of:

• 3rd lowest pressure, behind Wilma and Gilbert, and tied with Labor Day
• 2nd highest wind speed, behind Allen, and tied with Labor Day, Gilbert, Wilma and Dorian
• Lowest pressure and highest wind speed at landfall if maintained until then, tied with Labor Day for both (and Dorian for wind speed)

Wasn't Camille 200mph?

No, highest is Allen at 190.

[USTropics]

219 knots on the eyewall drop. This is insane

Yesterday's dropsonde measurement of 210kt was the highest ever recorded (this just set the new record).

[Beef Stew]

That's probably the craziest dropsonde I've ever seen

[MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS]

https://i.imgur.com/WxAyAiP.png
This is just another level

That's one for the record books

[michelinj]

219 knots on the eyewall drop. This is insane

Would that justify an upgrade to 190 or 195?

The dropsonde value was aloft not surface. And also those measuremnts are instantaneous. So they can find some even more extreme values than gust speed. Still incomprehensible however.