northjaxpro wrote:Ptarmigan wrote:I am not surprised that Lorenzo is a Category 5 hurricane.
Me either. I stated earlier in the week on this thread that he had a good shot at achieiving history out in the Far Eastern Tropical Atlantic basin.
He has indeed!! An increfible ttopical cyclone! I still maintain he msy have reached Cat 5 intensity back on Thursday night. So, he has had 2 rapid intensification cycles in the past 48 hours!
Simply amazing!
If I remember correctly, it was also you who mentioned in the first pages of the Dorian thread that you felt as though the precursor for Dorian (99L) would grow into a potentially formidable tropical cyclone.
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