Top hurricane sat photos of all time...

[somethingfunny]

My personal faves:

Hurricane Gilbert

Hugo at his Category 5 peak (Classic buzzsaw appearance)]

Allen in the Gulf (huge storm)
http://www.tropmet.com/images/gallery%2 ... n_000.jpeg

Allen

[euro6208]

Now this has got to be the strongest recon has gotten into with a photo available...Can't find any photo of Tip's eye with recon inside...Although there have been stronger

Recon in the 5 nm eye of Super Typhoon Forrest...1983...876 mb

Fastest intensification in the world but biased since recon is no longer present here...

In the West Pacific, Typhoon Forrest in September 1983 deepened by 100 mb (976 to 876 mb) in just under 24 hr (Roger Edson, personal communication) .

[euro6208]

Super Typhoon June (1975) at 875 mb with it's 3 mile diameter eye, a record at the time...although dropsonde measured this pressure near the eyewall not in center of eye where pressure could have been 10 mb lower according to a meteorologist and could have been stronger than Tip due to the small eye....

[supercane4867]

Hurricane/Typhoon Ioke, the strongest tropical cyclone to cross international date line on record.



Genevieve was somewhat tiny in comparison

[euro6208]

Hurricane/Typhoon Ioke, the strongest tropical cyclone to cross international date line on record.



Genevieve was somewhat tiny in comparison

That Ioke sure looks beautiful. It looks like someone painted that!

[mrbagyo]

Pinhole eye - PARMA 09'


or cat 5 with large eye? - Elsie 89'

[supercane4867]

Quite surprised that Isabel has not been posted in this thread

She's always my number one for beauty and roundness with the most impressive annular hurricane structure known to date

[tatertawt24]

^Best picture of Isabel. The eye almost looks bigger than the CDO.









^Epsilon





^For a cat 3, Isidore looked pretty amazing.



^Haiyan doesn't even look real in this picture lol.

[supercane4867]

^For a cat 3, Isidore looked pretty amazing.

Isidore was such an enormous storm somewhat resembled Gilbert in its appearance

[Hurricaneman]

^Haiyan doesn't even look real in this picture lol.

best overall structure to a storm that I've ever seen without hyperbole

[SFLcane]

That haiyan image is just "perfection" amazing symmetry!

[euro6208]

One of the first cyclones to impress me back in 2002, Cyclone Zoe at peak intensity of 155 knots and pressure of 890 mb...Strongest cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere according to JTWC...

[supercane4867]

One of the first cyclones to impress me back in 2002, Cyclone Zoe at peak intensity of 155 knots and pressure of 890 mb...Strongest cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere according to JTWC...

Although Zoe and Monica are the only cyclones received official estimates of 155kt in the SHEM, there're many significant but not well-known storms likely had been overlooked by JTWC including Olaf,Percy,and Geralda. They all qualifies T7.5/155kt on dvorak analysis yet were not rated such.

[euro6208]

One of the first cyclones to impress me back in 2002, Cyclone Zoe at peak intensity of 155 knots and pressure of 890 mb...Strongest cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere according to JTWC...

Although Zoe and Monica are the only cyclones received official estimates of 155kt in the SHEM, there're many significant but not well-known storms likely had been overlooked by JTWC including Olaf,Percy,and Geralda. They all qualifies T7.5/155kt on dvorak analysis yet were not rated such.

I forgot about Monica

[tatertawt24]

^Mesovortices in eye of Ivan



^This is what I like to imagine Hazel looked like.



Underrated Bret, and finally, the best satellite loop in history:

[HurricaneBill]

Typhoon Wayne 1986
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlTz2rAmFwc[/youtube]

Typhoon Nari 2001 (Warning: contains music)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVMnpzIY_s[/youtube]

Hurricane/Typhoon John 1994 (Warning: contains dance music)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprNFwy_6G8[/youtube]

[supercane4867]

Let's keep this thread going guys

Nice-looking Hurricane Edouard, the first major in the Atlantic since Sandy



Incredible view of Typhoon Nabi from space

[euro6208]

One of only a few typhoons to get recon flights back in the 90's

Measured CP of 891 mb...

[HurricaneBill]

Excluding recon flights, the lowest pressure recorded in a typhoon during the post-recon era (since 1987) was in Super Typhoon Maemi in 2003. The Japanese island of Miyakojima recorded a pressure of 912mb.

Here is Super Typhoon Maemi at peak intensity of 150KT (1-min sustained).

[HurricaneBill]

The infamous Typhoon Yunya.