NATL: MELISSA - Hurricane - Discussion

[Teban54]

That's it. Melissa is now officially tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic, in both wind speed and pressure.

[MGC]

Looks like Morgerman got into the extreme eastern part of the eye. I bet that NE quad of Melissa was intense. Montego Bay looks to get the western eye or eyewall. Going to be incredible destruction across western Jamaica......MGC

[ScottNAtlanta]

ACE is now above avg at 117.1

[CrazyC83]

We'll have to see if someone in New Hope or White House has a home barometer that survived. However, the Schloemer equation from Josh's data can also be used, as we know the RMW.

[cheezyWXguy]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

[Nimbus]

yeah, really looks its having some east component, Josh might still get inside it

He would have been mobile along A2 till the winds started picking up.
Usually hunkers down in the lee of a concrete structure.
Where are we getting information from?

[ATDoel]

Looks like Morgerman got into the extreme eastern part of the eye. I bet that NE quad of Melissa was intense. Montego Bay looks to get the western eye or eyewall. Going to be incredible destruction across western Jamaica......MGC

No updates from him at all, bit worrying. He was in the eye, I would have thought he could have gotten something out on starlink.

[CrazyC83]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

Never in the Atlantic.

[kevin]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

Nope, first time. Like many other stats, Melissa has broken this one as well.

[WaveBreaking]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

This is the first time in recorded history that this has occurred.

[zal0phus]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

Not recorded, no. But I would imagine there have been times in the late 1800s or 1930s or other exceptionally active eras

[ljmac75]

Looks like Morgerman got into the extreme eastern part of the eye. I bet that NE quad of Melissa was intense. Montego Bay looks to get the western eye or eyewall. Going to be incredible destruction across western Jamaica......MGC

No updates from him at all, bit worrying. He was in the eye, I would have thought he could have gotten something out on starlink.

I'm confident he'll turn up. He disappeared for a bit after Dorian too.

[Beef Stew]

Truly historic. I still can't actually believe we're witnessing a sub-900 mb landfall in the Atlantic... to me, that's always been this sort of mystified, fantastical benchmark set by one storm and one storm alone, and that, while I didn't doubt would happen again one day, I never expected to actually witness.

[tallywx]

We'll have to see if someone in New Hope or White House has a home barometer that survived. However, the Schloemer equation from Josh's data can also be used, as we know the RMW.

Josh also deploys a remote sensor or two in addition to the one he has on him. We’ll see if he placed any west of where he was because before the wobble all indications would’ve been to hedge sensors toward the east rather than west.

[Category5Kaiju]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

Sub-900 mbar hurricanes are like legends. They only happen every so often, separated by a decade or not longer.

Having two seasons back to back with these kinds of hurricanes is a first in recorded Atlantic history.

[Teban54]

Truly historic. I still can't actually believe we're witnessing a sub-900 mb landfall in the Atlantic... to me, that's always been this sort of mystified, fantastical benchmark set by one storm and one storm alone, and that, while I didn't doubt would happen again one day, I never expected to actually witness.

This is practically the first time, in our generations, that people were on the ground in a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and lived to tell the tale. (Except for a likely small number of Florida Keys residents who were in 1935 Labor Day and are still alive, if any)

[GCANE]

 https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1983216886092329469

[ConvergenceZone]

What a crazy storm! Been watching the footage all morning. This will more than likely be the last storm of the year, so this is what they call a season going out like a Lion.

[michelinj]

Have there ever been 2 consecutive seasons with sub-900mb hurricanes?

No, but 2005 had 2 in the same season, as well as Katrina at 902mb. That year is just in another league. The same season containing numbers 1,5 and 9 on the all time list!

[GCANE]

 https://x.com/SevereSig/status/1983205434056986808