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

[Sunnydays]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTRQNgqnEg0

Agenda Free tv live on youtube showing some amazing live cameras throughout the island.

[MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS]

Center pass from NOAA coming up any minute now.

We will get under Labor Day's 892 landfall for the all-time basin record?

[GCANE]

Eye saturated up to about 780mb.
Never seen it this high before.
Usually saturates around 850mb.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/r ... 8-1302.png

[NDG]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9553/h86ayy.gif

Poor little town of Black Water.
I believe Melissa now has the third lowest pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic after Wilma and Gilbert.

[aspen]

I’m still in shock. 892-891 mbar and still about an hour out. Jamaica needs all our prayers and then some.

[zal0phus]

Never in a million years did I think Milton would be surpassed so soon. I wonder if this is what the 1932 Cuba hurricane was like. Desperately hoping the best for Jamaica; at least Kingston won't face a direct hit or northeast quad hit

[ScottNAtlanta]

I just woke up and see a pressure of 893!!!

[Teban54]

For an island whose strongest landfall in record history was a high-end Cat 3 (Gilbert), I cannot imagine how Jamaica could even wrap their heads around a sub-900 mb landfall, only the second time in the entire basin. Prayers...

[Beef Stew]

Data from Kermit should be in any minute now

[GCANE]

Over 700' drop in elevation in a few seconds in recon.
Momentarily weightless and breakfast less.

[LarryWx]

For an island whose strongest landfall in record history was a high-end Cat 3 (Gilbert), I cannot imagine how Jamaica could even wrap their heads around a sub-900 mb landfall, only the second time in the entire basin. Prayers...

Lowest on record in Jamaica is 958 mb (1951’s Charlie). Next is 960 mb (Gilbert 1988).

[Hurricane2022]

173 KT FL

[mrbagyo]

892.5 extrap on P3 Orion

[Travorum]

173kt FL winds, wow.

[TheHurricaneGod]

[kevin]

NOAA center pass: 892.5 mb extrapolated pressure, 173 kt FL wind.

[aspen]

173 kt FL holy cow.

Think this is 892/160 now. Unbelievable.

[kevin]

173 kt FL is a guarantee to keep its 155 kt intensity. But it might even be sufficient to bump it to 160 kt considering how well Melissa is mixing its FL wind down to the surface.

[Hypercane_Kyle]

Pretty consistent extrapolated pressure of 892-893 from two recons with dropsonde support from AF plane. Should see it drop a few MB.

[FireRat]

Holy cow!!! I cannot believe what I'm waking up to, SUB 900 landfall!!? No way, this is the Atlantic's Haiyan - are we seriously tying 1935, or even beating the 892 mb landfall!?

Melissa might just be the mother of all landfalling Atlantic hurricanes, prayers for Jamaica!!