ATL: IOTA - Remnants - Discussion

[Iceresistance]

When will next recon be making first fix? I'm guessing we'll see 914/915mb.

In a hour or so, they reached the Western Caribbean

[skyline385]

The HWRF busted badly with Iota’s track and large eye predictions. Surprisingly, it seems like the HMON did the best job with Iota.

HWRF lately seems to be very trigger happy for EWRCs

[ScottNAtlanta]

This continues the curse of the "I" storms...I think

[aspen]

Christmas songs on the radio and a rapidly intensifying Category 5 in the Caribbean do not and should not go together...but here we area.

This year has made zero sense.

[underthwx]

I'm measuring an eye diameter of 8nm or less now. Impressive storm, for mid-September...

...and **** just froze over, Wxman57 said he was impressed by a storm!

Xman is a man of few emotions...one reason he kicks a** as a forecaster...

[supercane4867]

Stadium effect

[kevin]

This continues the curse of the "I" storms...I think

Isaias: doesn't become a major hurricane
Storm2k: hey, maybe the i-curse has ended
2020: oh you sweet summer child, you ain't seen nothing yet

[storminabox]

How many times will the 2020 hurricane season leave me in awe! This feels like a dream!

[chaser1]

When will next recon be making first fix? I'm guessing we'll see 914/915mb.

In a hour or so, they reached the Western Caribbean

Cool, thanks. Sure hope no one rushed a Domino's pizza onboard before take-off

[mlfreeman]

Christmas songs on the radio and a rapidly intensifying Category 5 in the Caribbean do not and should not go together...but here we area.

This year has made zero sense.

Don't blame the tropics. Blame the retailers for starting the sales push earlier.

The Dec 1 official end date is there for a reason.

[NXStumpy_Robothing]

This continues the curse of the "I" storms...I think

Isaias: doesn't become a major hurricane
Storm2k: hey, maybe the i-curse has ended
2020: oh you sweet summer child, you ain't seen nothing yet

Admittedly, Isaias was still destructive in its own right...

Nearly $5 billion in damages and 18 deaths is bad enough on its own, but apparently 2020 didn't think that was "good enough".

[supercane4867]

[Iceresistance]

Is the lightning count 61, 81 or 91?

[Owasso]

 https://twitter.com/jakecarstens/status/1328350147093393408

[Iceresistance]

https://twitter.com/jakecarstens/status/1328350147093393408?s=21

Another record down the drain for 2020

[GCANE]

Could be starting to see leveling off in intensification.
The core continuous to warm, BUT the cold pool has significantly warmed.

[supercane4867]

Satellite presentation still improving.

[gfsperpendicular]

I believe this will be the shortest S2k thread for a Category 5 storm that impacts land since 2005:

Lorenzo '19: 29 pages
Emily '05: 45 pages
Rita '05: 53 pages
Iota '20: 66 pages
Katrina '05: 111 pages
Maria '17: 153 pages
Michael '18: 219 pages
Wilma '05: 282 pages
Ivan '04: 352 pages
Matthew '16: 546 pages
Irma '17: 622 pages

(Isabel '03 did not have a contemporaneous thread, or if it did, it is now deleted.)

[Hypercane_Kyle]

This season is absurd. Just the 30th named storm of the season making landfall as a Cat 5.

[GCANE]

I hope that's the beginning of a moat, NE of the CoC.
Need to see if Recon reports a RH measurement of 26% or higher in the eye at 700mb.