Milton: Another Gulf of Mexico storm

[Big Tyme]

Years ago a friend of mine died when her plane disintegrated over the Gulf of Mexico due to storm turbulence, not even a hurricane.

She was coming home from a scuba diving trip.

I know the storm chaser plane is much more structurally sound but thinking about it still freaks me out.

I could not see it in the video(maybe it was NOAAs P3) but I have been aboard a WC-130 used by the AF Hurricane Hunters and they have a couple hundred gallon tank of avgas forward of the meteorological suite. Fly into a hurricane? Check. Carrying a bomb with you? Check. These guys are just wild.

[RaisingCajun08]

This was the storm surge from Ian at Ft Myers a couple of years ago.
https://x.com/i/status/1575910518514016257

Friends of mine lost everything in Ft. Myers for Ian. They did not build back. Was not worth the cost for a summer home.

Saw a bit on Weather Channel yesterday where they interviewed a lady that lived in St. Pete. Her and husbands home was built and designed by Deltec Homes. They were still planning on evacuating stating they were worried about the storm surge. She felt confident that they would come back to something. Just not sure what. Cant disagree with that statement. Storm surge is very very scary.

https://deltechomes.com/hurricane/

[HelmutVII]

Very good info from Dr. Cowan

https://youtu.be/2yq-0uD42HM?si=T70I1VOB6VcbFToT

[CajunNation]

Its getting ripped to shreds right now by some pretty gnarly sheering.

Thank the gods.

[HelmutVII]

This satellite loop is up to 1:00 CDT. The west half of the storm is totally different from the east half of the storm with out a visible eye at the end of the loop. (that I can see)


https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...-1000x1000.gif

[Big Tyme]

This satellite loop is up to 1:00 CDT. The west half of the storm is totally different from the east half of the storm with out a visible eye at the end of the loop. (that I can see)


https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...-1000x1000.gif

Dry air

[HelmutVII]

Dry air

and wind shear

[Big Tyme]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1844156463398387991

28 foot waves 40 nm from the center

[Bandwagon King]

…….where have you been??? My point is that if you let that number of illegals in the country……How do they live? They get government money in various ways…Clothing, medical, educational, housing, meals, etc…… a huge chunk of bucks that come out of the same pot as bucks for disaster and other necessities!!!

Now, how could that be when they (illegal immigrants) got more than a hundred percent of the 14 MILLION new jobs that were created these last 4 years?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuarta...get-most-jobs/

[cajun4life]

If you go to the flightaware link I posted above you can see it was bounced around a good bit

It was the #1 watched flight globally.