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Waiting on a dropsonde to confirm, but Melissa is most certainly below 900 hPa right now.
Tragically we are about to witness the 2nd or 1st deepest Atlantic hurricane landfall by min MSLP on record in Jamaica.
The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) is exactly the storm I'd compare Melissa to. It was the only other time I've seen the Dvorak scale violated above 8.0, and the only other time I've seen a complete ring of -80°F cloud tops (shown here in pink).
CI# up to 8.2 = 176kt / 882mb (satellite estimates put Melissa at Wilma levels)
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Yeah I've also found it's helpful for synthesizing huge volumes of text that you directly provide, like thousands of paper abstracts. But it is terrible at actual academic writing with citations and references. It can't even do basic reference formatting correctly, when given a list.
My brother and I were on the north side of this storm and missed these. We were watching another brief tornado with another storm and then were out of position for the main show.
Cool to see your great footage after 20 years!
Looks like an academic freedom catastrophe from beginning to end: because of (real or perceived) pressure from the state, Tulane’s leadership barred a scientist from talking about her research apnews.com/article/canc...
I have posted a lot recently about my worries for the NWS. However, I am also increasingly worried that the threat to NWS is distracting from the even greater threat to the rest of NOAA. Tonight I wrote about the broader agency I am so proud to have been a part of.
open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
What they are doing is aggressively accusing everyone else of insurrection in order to cover up and make everyone forget the actual insurrection & attempted coup that Trump orchestrated.
Would have drifted to near Dodge City by now...
It would be a nice day to have lunch and then go sky watching in/near Great Bend, KS, if I were out that direction...which I am not.
I am in FL trying to get our new robot lawnmower to stop going in circles & getting stuck.
Also, I hope to hear a thunderous roar from OKC this afternoon.
🎉PhD student Michelle Ruiz was selected for the Disaster Research Center’s CHEER summer research program that will take place in North Carolina www.drc.udel.edu/2025-summer-...
Congratulations Marinna and Michael on graduation! And congrats Stephen, too!
Mostly German, but reviewing my French and dabbling in a few others. You?
I have enjoyed learning via Duolingo for over a year now, but recently have missed several days in a row due to being quite busy.
The aggressive, weird tone of the Duolingo reminder emails do not make me want to resume lessons. They make me want to delete the app & cancel my subscription.
Or, consider the experimental evidence. Scholars have found (over and over again) that, compared to "regular" people, those with high levels of wealth and income are more likely to lie, cheat, and steal. And they're also more likely to say that greed is good.
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Trump is engaging the full power of the presidency to settle scores,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man.”
Still finding quarter sized hailstones on the ground 45 minutes after...
A few photos...
Pretty impressive hailstorm in NW Gainesville in the past 15 minutes, a lot of dime and nickel sized, a few quarters
Had a lot of dime to nickel sized hail in NW GNV, a few quarters. Most intense hailstorm I've seen in Gainesville.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning in GNV now, could get a little rough next few minutes in our area.
This would kill all weather model development - RRFS, HAFS, and WoFS - in NOAA. These are activities that the private sector can’t support; they leverage these models to train & benchmark their own.
I wish the headline didn’t just focus on climate as it limits the audience who will listen.
The Climate Risk and Storm Hazards (CRASH) Lab led by Dr. Katy Serafin and Dr. @scatterazure.bsky.social focuses on risk, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation for weather and climate hazards and environmental change geog.ufl.edu/geography-la...
