Michael Lowry

All of the named storms of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

This week marked the end of 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. It was comprised of...

13 named storms
5 hurricanes
4 major hurricane

I read it some years ago and have seen the criticism leveled at it which seem valid. Then again I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a compelling read with some really important and substantiated ideas.

I love reading about anthropology and the history of humanity for similar reasons. It bogles my mind what a relative blip we are on Earth and how societies came about. Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) and Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari) are two books that I can't recommend enough.

So many stunning images from the 2025 hurricane season, but this pass into Category 5 Melissa's eye by Air Force Hurricane Hunters on October 27th might be the most breathtaking I've ever seen. (video via FlynonymousWX on X)

Yes, I noticed the same but suspect it's from not removing the vortex

One thing that struck me about this hurricane season is just how conducive the western Atlantic was at its height. August wind shear is about as solid a predictor for seasonal activity as any. With Aug-Sep-Oct shear at record lows, a Melissa-like storm felt like a matter of time.

The Tumultuous 2025 Hurricane Season Comes to a Close The first season in a decade without a U.S. hurricane landfall also featured three Category 5 hurricanes, including Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record

We can call the 2025 hurricane season a lot of things but quiet only applies to the U.S. Here's my recap of the tumultuous hurricane season that left no shortage of big records. ⬇️

Stunning lenticular #cloud over Mt. Washington #NHwx today!

Details: This imagery showcases a composite of every category 4 and 5 hurricane in the Atlantic ocean since 2020, using the GeoColor product from the GOES-16 and GOES-19 weather satellites. It spans from 22:30 UTC on 2020-08-26 (Hurricane Laura) to 14:00 UTC on 2025-10-28 (Hurricane Melissa).

Every Category 4 and 5 Atlantic hurricane since 2020, all together, in one group photo.

H/t to @ferragamowx.bsky.social for the inspiration.

Or -xas. 😂 This makes now TWO senior officials performing the duties of administrator and the review council who concluded (and I can’t emphasize this next part enough) *against their own druthers*, we need FEMA, need to fund the agency, states can’t do this alone. I mean…
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As a seasoned emergency manager who's overseen some of FEMA's biggest response and recovery plans, I can assure you this is nonsense. Reducing the 75/25 cost share and assuming states not ending in -orida have the capacity to manage major public assistance projects is naive and dangerous policy.

Hurricane Melissa produced the fastest hurricane winds to be recorded by a dropsonde, verified by reviewing data at NSF NCAR! Hurricane Melissa’s 252 mph wind gust surpassed the previous record from Typhoon Megi over the Western Pacific in 2010, where a dropsonde measured wind gusts of 248 mph.

Though not as a pejorative, I was a habitual user of "crazy" as a common exclamation ("Wow that's crazy!"). I've worked on removing it from my vocabulary in recent years and it really stands out now when I hear it from others.

Joining this shortly!

Writing isn't in my CV but I do a lot of it nowadays! I find writing done right the best way to message important science and forecasts. Looking forward to joining @mattlanza.bsky.social and @kmalloy.bsky.social tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET to discuss our approaches to striking a chord online.

Overlooking Pearl River near Bogalusa, LA @vincentledvina.bsky.social

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?

Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes

The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

This is a wild stat. Great find @pppapin.bsky.social!

57˚ may not sound all that cold to many of you.

But that was this morning's low in Key West, Florida, tying their "record coldest so early in fall" with four other dates in 1966, 1955, 1913.

Stunning!

This may be the coldest early November outbreak in parts of Florida and the Southeast since 1993.

About 2 dozen daily record lows in jeopardy on Veterans Day.

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Out of all the stats that will be in history books from Melissa, this is the most astounding to me.

GLM data was recording a peak flash rate of 700 strikes per minute — nearly 12 per second — as it made landfall on Jamaica. That’s rewriting our understanding flash density in tropical cyclones.

Kalmaegi produces serious flooding in central Philippines 48 confirmed dead and more missing, new system likely to threaten northern Philippines as a supertyphoon this weekend.

Western Pacific in focus today as Kalmaegi has caused devastating flooding in Philippines and a new depression looks likely to threaten Luzon as a super typhoon this weekend. Also highlight @michaelrlowry.bsky.social post about just how poor GFS has been this hurricane season. tinyurl.com/du2smex7

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Big thank you to @franklinjamesl.bsky.social and @bmcnoldy.bsky.social for sharing their preliminary verification numbers for the season so far

This Hurricane Season, Two Forecast Models Stand Out, but for Very Different Reasons Google’s newest DeepMind hurricane model was the star of the 2025 hurricane season while America’s flagship weather model stumbled to new lows

Today's my final routine newsletter of the hurricane season, so I thought I'd dig into the preliminary results of our forecast models. Google's DeepMind scorched the competition, but for America's flagship weather model, it was a season to forget.

And here is the same, but for all 13 storms in the entire season so far. "OFCL" is the NHC's forecast, and "GDMI" is the Google #DeepMind ensemble mean and is the leading model for both track and intensity this season.
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With #Melissa now an extratropical cyclone in the north Atlantic, here's a look at the preliminary track and intensity verification stats for the storm's 10-day lifetime.

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Glad there's a time change tonight

Unbelievable. This game.