FireRat wrote:galaxy401 wrote:WalterWhite wrote:Lee is 100% an underperformer---no doubt about it. HAFS models expected it intensify to 170-180 knots, yet it only reached a measly 145 knots.
"Only" 145 kts. I feel you put your expectations way too high. You got a Cat 5 and you're still complaining.
Yeah a feat not even 2020 officially could pull off! But yeah all is relative I guess, with many expecting a Haiyan out of this thing like the models showed once Lee really took off. Definitely not an underperformer, more like performed as expected originally.
Lee is not an underperformer, period. I feel like we've all been spoiled by the past few years that a 145kt explosively intensifying Cat 5 could even be considered an underperformance.
It wasn't too long ago that we nearly went a decade without a single Category 5 in the Atlantic (officially, Felix 2007 -> Matthew 2016). Category 5 is not a guaranteed occurrence either even in perfect conditions, due to other factors such as ERCs, etc., so IMO any storm that manages to reach Cat 5 is not an underperformer.