A very wide panorama of Yosemite Valley with Yosemite Falls on the left, Half Dome at middle right, and Nevada Falls on the far right. There are clear blue skies overhead.

A massive pano of Yosemite Vally, as viewed from Glacier Point. You'll find Yosemite Falls on the left, Half Dome at middle right, and Nevada Falls on the far right. #photography

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa

NOAA’s hurricane research division staff has been cut from 52 in 2020 to 28 in 2025, almost a 50% cut. They’ve resorted to using volunteers to man the critical radar and dropsonde stations on Hurricane Hunter flights. Senseless cuts in an era of climate change making the strongest storms stronger.

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Annotating a long 3+ day loop of #Hurricane #Melissa from Kingston, #Jamaica radar.

2️⃣ periods appear where an eyewall replacement cycle, #ERC, looked underway. In both cases, inner eyewall stayed intact & outer bands merged, resulting in a larger eye & strengthening after.

A remarkable evolution 🌀

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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

Multi-panel view of the last few days of Hurricane Melissa:

↖️ GOES-19 infrared brightness temp
↗️ GOES-19 visible satellite
↙️ Hurricane hunter planes & flight paths
↘️ Recon-derived flight level wind swath
⬇️ Estimated minimum pressure from recon dropsondes

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Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.

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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 polar-orbiting satellite made an extremely fortuitous pass over Hurricane Melissa right before it made landfall in Jamaica to provide these stunning images of one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in history

This has probably already been posted here, but Melissa has displayed a classic mesovortex pattern that can be modeled in the simplest 2D atmospheric models ("nondivergent barotropic models"). Here's a comparison of this morning's VIS sat and Kossin and Schubert (2001) experiments.

I was worried for my crew mates when I saw them circling in the eye for over 20 mins. Looks like the very rough ride was confirmed. Plane had to leave early. They reported svr turb and a "sawtooth" eye. Looks like they moved 600-700ft up & down during this stretch in ~1 min.

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This is hands down the most extraordinary dropsonde in Atlantic recon history.

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An X screenshot of the DHS profile in which they shared "finishing this fight" with a picture from the Halo video game with the text "DESTROY THE FLOOD join ICE"

For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.

The foreground has a steep slope on each side - slopes of cinder cone volcanoes. In the distance is Colton Crater - another cinder cone volcano. The crater has a golden yellow hue, with green plains in front of it. Even further in the distance is a snow-capped volcanic peak, partially obscured by stormy clouds and virga overhead. The setting sun casts a pinkish hue to the shy below the clouds.

A moody view of Colton Crater, shot from the steep slope of SP Crater, with storms over a snow-capped Humphreys Peak at sunset. #photography

The 2pm ET public update advisory for Hurricane Melissa has the central pressure down to 906 mb with peak winds of 175 mph. This makes Melissa the 10th strongest hurricane in record in the Atlantic Basin.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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A visible satellite image of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa just south of Jamaica on Monday morning.

Hurricane Melissa is now the:
-3rd Category 5 this year
-7th Category 5 in the past 3 years
-13th Category 5 in the past 10 years
-45th Category 5 in the Atlantic since 1850

Only one other Atlantic season (2005) has recorded more than two Category 5 hurricanes.

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after
experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall."

These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa