2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

It was a weekend NPR show, which can be bullshit, but all the original scientists were interviewed.

 

Not Atlantic, but Otis is a Cat. 4 and might hit Cat. 5 before hitting Acapulco.

 

Yeah this caught me by surprise.

 

We're getting a dose of Pacific Norma here deep in the hearta'. Moisture from it is giving us some badly-needed rain, but it's too little too late as the first freeze is expected for a lot of us on Halloween morning.

 

Hurricane Tammy is on crack and thankfully a fish strom. She's a 2 now, expected to lose hurricane status by Friday, then start doing donuts. Forecast has her pulling a hard left and maybe veering back toward Jacksonville.

 

Dang!

The city of Acapulco endured the strongest storm to hit Mexico on record as Hurricane Otis made landfall on the southern Pacific coast overnight Wednesday as a Category 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds.
The hurricane left scenes of devastation in its wake, knocking over trees and flooding streets. Forecasts predicted up to 15 inches of rain in some areas.
After a rapid intensification over a warm patch of ocean off the Pacific Coast, Otis intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 24 hours, said Brian McNoldy, at the University of Miami. It was the strongest on record to make landfall in Mexico

 

Should be seeing some pictures soon.

 

Well, there's a forecast finally worse than my "Pete Carroll will fail miserably at USC" one.

 

Tammy has PMS

Hurricane Tammy "craziest" spaghetti models show US states it could hit

Spaghetti models of the storm show that some of its potential paths include it making landfall in Florida, or alternatively in North Carolina, but that other possible paths could send it careening in the opposite direction into the Atlantic.
"This has to be among the craziest spaghetti models ever for a hurricane," Eliot Jacobson, a retired professor of mathematics and computer science, posted to X, formerly Twitter, over a model by meteorologist Levi Cowan.

 

Some of the early video of Acapulco is horrifying. At least one tall condo is missing about half of its rooms. There's serious flooding everywhere and I have no idea how any of the safer shelters held up. It's going to be a long time before that place is open to tourists again.

Going from a depression to a Cat 5 that quickly, and on a track no one's ever seen before? That's not good for the future.

 

Hotel Row in Acapulco got a full frontal dose of Otis.

https://x.com/PedroMrquez_/status/1717680672285000053?s=20

Not a peep in the news stateside.