Tropical Cyclone-Related Anniversaries [Five-year Intervals Only]

[Europa non è lontana]

Five years today since Ianos, the most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Mediterranean basin, made landfall on the Greek island of Cephalonia.

[Hurricane2022]

 https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/1968488669397864811

[storm_in_a_teacup]

Today is the 20th anniversary of the infamous Rita evacuation. I went through that. It took like 26 hours just to get to some random woodland place up north...then only like a couple more hours to reach San Antonio, thanks to some secret backroads useful for evacuation the Galvestonians told us about.
I had a lot of weird experiences during that event, for sure...

I desperately packed all the hurricane comics I had drawn into a suitcase, not wanting to lose them. Of course, as I got older and better at art and writing, I threw all those out anyway because I didn't like the art or the characterization of the characters anymore.

[Hurricane2022]

Twenty years ago...
 https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/1978564987078455514

[doomhaMwx]

Super Typhoon Dot, 40 years ago.

 https://x.com/doomhaMwx/status/1978793049984536790

[doomhaMwx]

Super Typhoon Megi (2010), 15 years ago.
 https://x.com/doomhaMwx/status/1979159205937332415


 https://x.com/doomhaMwx/status/1979161612717060347



Super Typhoon Koppu (2015), 10 years ago.
 https://x.com/doomhaMwx/status/1979292645026599197

[MarioProtVI]

On this day 20 years ago in 2005, Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, achieving a minimum pressure of 882 mb* in the Western Caribbean with the smallest eye on record at only 2.3 mi in diameter, the ultimate pinhole eye. It was also the fastest-intensifying hurricane in the Atlantic, going from a high-end tropical storm to an extremely intense Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours, and its pressure fell nearly 100 mb in the same timeframe, an unprecedented event. It would be the last sub-900 Atlantic hurricane for another 19 years before Milton in 2024 achieved its peak of 895 mb.

*Still plausible (and admitted by NHC) that it could’ve been slightly more intense then stated given the ongoing EI trend

[MarioProtVI]

Exactly ten years ago today, on October 23, 2015, Hurricane Patricia became the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record (and the strongest in the Western Hemisphere), reaching a record-shattering wind speed of 185 kt / 215 mph and a central minimum pressure of 872 mb, just 2 mb shy of the world record of 870 mb set by Super Typhoon Tip in 1979. It explosively intensified an astounding 105 kt / 120 mph in 24 hours, going from a tropical storm to an extremely intense Cat 5 in that time, with the pressure falling a near-record 95 mb during the timeframe from 06z 10/22 to 06z 10/23. In fact, the NHC even said there’s a good chance Patricia likely surpassed Tip’s intensity since the peak occurred in between missions. Even more impressive, Patricia actually broke the Dvorak scale on ADT, peaking at T8.0.

I didn’t track as much back then but I remember seeing Patricia’s advisory on Weather Underground, and when I saw the 200 mph I thought that was an error.



 https://x.com/zeb199818/status/1981205398775615631

[CrazyC83]

It seems right around now every 5-10 years something insane happens.

[Hurricane2022]

 https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/1985152350911160634

[aspen]

 https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/1985152350911160634

I still vividly remember the string of scrubbed recon flights that day. Then when one finally got there it was “only” in the 920s lol.

Probably the second most memorable day for recon (for all the wrong reasons), only behind the race to get Melissa’s sub-900 peak last week.

[AJC3]

Okay, I'm definitely cheating on this one, but Gord did sing "In the face of a hurricane west wind..." In any event, today is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior during a vicious XT "bomb" cyclone.

The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

https://www.weather.gov/mqt/fitz_fitz

https://www.weather.gov/apx/fitzgerald



Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI