Derek Ortt wrote:he has his agenda... and science is not it
and he is also dead flat wrong as usual. Hurricane Lili made landfall with a pressure of 964mb and a peak wind of 80KT. The GOM tends to have a different pressure to wind ratio than the rest of the basin for some reason
He explained that as well. Weakening storms, per JB, have less turbulent mixing that bring down lower winds, strengthening storms have more turbulent mixing.
He didn't name Lili by name, but qualified it as 'lowest wind ever in a strenghthening storm' at 964.
It looked steady state before landfall, maybe even weakened a tad.
There was, IIRC, an unofficial 115 mph gust in Matamoros recorded by a chaser, but that was a gust and unofficial.
Don't blame me, I don't have edit priviledges for Wiki and don't really trust them as a source.
I was going to say Allison was only a minimal storm, but that I suspected since flooding was in densely populated area, Allison might have been bigger $ storm in Texas, but the Rita evacuation and the 2 day virtual shutdown of the Houston area pre-Rita may have pushed dollar losses higher.