Hurricane Pamela's weird trajectory is because she's running in to a massive wind field at Jet-stream level that is blowing in off the Pacific. This appears to be accelerating her strengthening.
Here we see Pamela's development over the past 24 hours. To her north you see high level clouds blowing in from the South East over the Tijuana Peninsula - and blowing the storm over the great lakes away to the north east.
And in this closeup we see #PAMELA's explosive convective development over that 24 hour period. As the sun rises she's looking a little ragged but huge even though the sheer on her northern side is massive, with massive outflow plume already extending well beyond Texas.
Here's the beginning and end of the latest NHC Discussion.
"dropsonde wind data from an earlier AFR recon. aircraft indicate the vortex column from the surface to at least the 700-mb level was vertically aligned with no tilt evident."
This means that the wind to #Pamela's north is not blowing her apart. And the warning bit at the end signifies massive damage potential on the Mexican coast where she has already started to run into high mountains.
This animation shows #PAMELA just for the past three hours. You can see the dry air that she is dragging in from the north west revealing the edge of her convective core, which has no eye, and seems unlikely to develop one.
Here we see #PAMELA over the past six hours. And how that dry air is eroding her western side.
This image is from six hours ago, when #PAMELA was at her maximum size, roughly 500 miles wide. Before she makes landfall she is expected to strengthen again as she turns towards the North East.
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If @realDonaldTrump chooses to join Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign if he is not obeyed …. he WILL find himself indicted in the international criminal court in The Hague.
And he will then have to make a decision on whether he is willing to remain in the U.S.
@realDonaldTrump Should he proceed as he has intimated that he should now be pursued by protestors everywhere he goes.
There is a lot of concern about evacuations of civilians from Gaza in the flotilla as anyone leaving may not be able to return any time soon. /2
But the moral hazard here is palpable. There are thousands of injured and starving mostly women and children. And we saw the young babies dying in the hospitals in the early stages of this war. /3
More and more naval vessels from Europe and the Middle East are being deployed to protect the Global Samir Flotilla as it moves slowly but surely towards Gaza where it intends to deliver aid and global attention. /1
Attacks from drones on the flotilla have resumed and Israel is presumably responsible for this. It is because of this that naval vessels from Europe are now joining the flotilla to protect their citizens rights of travel in international waters. /2
The escalation appears fairly slow at present and the flotilla is still within Greek waters at present /3
The #Samud #GazaFlotilla is currently sailing across the Ionian Sea towards the island archipelago south east of Athens in the Western Mediterranean. Conditions appear good for this leg that departed from Sicily after leaving Tunisia. The Flotilla set off from Barcelona.
2/ this current leg is 860 kms roughly and lead boats in the 51 vessel flotilla are currently approaching south western Greece. You can follow the flotillas progress here >> flotilla-orpin.vercel.app
3/ After two drone attacks on flotilla boats in Tunisia the flotilla sailed first to Sicily where it was joined by several more boats. And this map shows the path of the flotilla so far. The numbers in the dots indicate more vessels joining #GazaFlotilla