Just overheard "eyeball replacement cycle" 🧐
The intensity has thankfully leveled off at 130-knots - top end Category 4.
#HurricaneIda continues a recent trend of Gulf of Mexico storms that do not weaken approaching landfall instead blowing up to max intensity.
The intensity has thankfully leveled off at 130-knots - top end Category 4.
#HurricaneIda continues a recent trend of Gulf of Mexico storms that do not weaken approaching landfall instead blowing up to max intensity.
The Gulf of Mexico is always warm enough to develop a major hurricane in August, with warm eddies spinning and looping providing extra ocean heat content. But a major recent difference is top-to-bottom extreme warmth of shallower shelf waters along TX and LA coasts.
30°C+
30°C+
There's the Gulf of Mexico "loop current" strategically located along the track of Hurricane Ida.
Random chance that Ida crossed it? Or some chicken and the egg here?
Random chance that Ida crossed it? Or some chicken and the egg here?
The "hurricane fuel" or Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential (TCHP) is calculated by integrating from the surface to the 26°C isotherm -- deeper and warmer = more TCHP.
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