NATL: MELISSA - Aftermath - Discussion: Josh Morgerman video of Melissa is up

[Hurricane2022]

The person who said "880s are still in play" may be devilishly correct since the plane barely entered the eye

[InfernoFlameCat]

What the actual ****

[kevin]

And I thought Milton, the first sub-900 mb storm in almost 20 years, would be 'generational'. This goes above and beyond.

[grapealcoholic]

880s still in play

The person who said "880s are still in play" may be devilishly correct since the plane barely entered the eye

its not done

[Stormybajan]

893 mb extrap.....ummm This might be a worse case scenario for Jamaica's landfall
This will be the FINAL Melissa but this hurricane wont be forgotten by anyone who tracked her.
-2.67 eye at its driest aswell...this is just beyond my wildest expectations

[TheHurricaneGod]

-2.25C at 12:41 UTC!!!!

[Teban54]

Yesterday people said that Melissa is probably what the 1932 Cuba hurricane would look like on satellite.

Now... This is probably what the 1935 Labor Day hurricane would look like on satellite.

[kevin]

This is this generation's Wilma moment. We'll still talk about this storm for decades to come. Unfortunately, unlike Wilma, this one will make landfall at its insane peak intensity. Prayers to all in Jamaica, I don't know what else to say.

[MarioProtVI]

What the actual hell. This wasn’t what I expected to wake up to.

[Hurricane2022]

I can't even imagine what must be going through the minds of the NHC meteorologists. They must all be suffering from violent migraines and stomach upset...

[Kazmit]

This storm is a perfect nightmare scenario of a climate-induced warm SST future.

[Fancy1002]

If Jamaica wasn’t there and it was making landfall in Cuba instead, I think Melissa would beat both Wilma and Allen for intensity and wind speed.

[ATDoel]

what's the strongest an Atlantic hurricane has been at landfall? 892mb for the labor day hurricane?

[kevin]

what's the strongest an Atlantic hurricane has been at landfall? 892mb for the labor day hurricane?

Yes, that's the current record.

[Hurricane2022]

893.4 extrap.

[Beef Stew]

Yesterday people said that Melissa is probably what the 1932 Cuba hurricane would look like on satellite.

Now... This is probably what the 1935 Labor Day hurricane would look like on satellite.

https://i.imgur.com/Xnp3Q5D.gif

I still think peak Milton is probably a better analog for Labor Day due to the incredibly rapid intensification to an upper-end C5, but yeah, Melissa is probably quite similar as well. Structurally though, I'm not sure you could get a better looking storm outside of the deep WCar though.

[Hypercane_Kyle]

Entire row of sub-900 pressure. Recon did a double take to verify. 100% confirmed.

[Beef Stew]

what's the strongest an Atlantic hurricane has been at landfall? 892mb for the labor day hurricane?

Yeah, that's the record. Although there is a possibility that Labor Day could've been even 10ish mb deeper according to anecdotal accounts, and considering that the 892 reading came from Craig Key and wasn't directly centered in the eye if I remember correctly. Even getting an on-ground reading of 892 is beyond insane.

[Hurricane2022]

Saved for posterity. History is made!

[Teban54]

This is a set of recon obs for the record books, circling in the eye with sub-900 extrap for the full 10 minutes. You wouldn't even be able to do this in a smaller pinhole eye like Wilma and Milton.