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@historyinmemes
In an era of cheap, overused CGI, Interstellar was a stunning reminder of the realism that can be achieved from physical models. One of the best special-effects-movies of the 21st century. Adding an unbelievable soundtrack score from Hans Zimmer = chills, every time.
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BREAKING: Hurricane
#Beryl
has clinched 160 mph maximum sustained winds, surpassing Hurricane Emily (2005) as the earliest forming Category 5 Atlantic cyclone by more than two weeks. In hundreds of years of Hurricane history, no storm like Beryl has ever been documented. She is a
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Hurricanes strengthen over seawater, and weaken over land—it’s one of the most fundamental laws that govern the meteorological mechanics of tropical cyclones. However, on August 19th, 2007, Tropical Storm Erin challenged this cyclonic status quo when she suddenly and strikingly
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BREAKING: Hurricane
#Idalia
has been upgraded to a CATEGORY 4 Hurricane with winds of 130 mph and a pressure of 940 mb. The NHC now forecasts that further intensification is anticipated before landfall. An absolutely fierce and dangerous storm that will bring life-threatening
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The potentially catastrophic monster
#Tornado
in western Kentucky has never been stronger than it is now. If you live anywhere between Earlington and Morton’s Gap, you are in an exceptionally life-threatening Tornado Emergency. This barbarously destructive twister is launching
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Hurricane
#Beryl
is not weakening right now—in fact, she may be re-strengthening. Superchilled, -112 Fahrenheit convection is wrapping around her core once again, refrigerating her stormy blood back to an alarmingly powerful temperature. Her eye, seeking to gaze the lucid
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Hurricane
#Beryl
was a once-in-a-lifetime storm—never before has a Hurricane of her strength been detected roaming the seas so early in the summer. She lived 13+ days, travelled more than 6,000 miles, and accumulated an immense trophy case of Atlantic Cyclone Records. She was the
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Last night, a nightmarish scenario erupted throughout central Oklahoma when an unforgiving outbreak of violent, nighttime tornados carved paths of destruction across the state. Lines of “Training Supercells” (tornado-producing t-storms that align and move like connected train
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@historyinmemes
If you drop a bowling ball pendulum at the starting position of your face, the ball will not hit you when it swings back.
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Twilight is upon Kentucky, and it has brought with it a
#Tornado
Emergency of bizarrely terrifying proportions. A massive, catastrophic, inky-black twister is just moments away from shredding apart Crider and White Sulphur, KY with deadly force. TAKE COVER NOW! If you are in the
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It’s looking as though the upcoming Central American gyre will be a life-threatening rainstorm regardless of future cyclogenesis. Just like Invest 90L, this unnamed, seedling system is going to be convectively supercharged, potentially unleashing 50+ inches of torrential rainfall
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In complete defiance of the forecasts, Hurricane
#Beryl
is once again a Category 3 Major Hurricane, attaining very dangerous sustained winds of 115 mph. Most notable with this new update is her core pressure, which has plummeted 12 millibars to 962 mb. Beryl continues to be an
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Hurricane
#Beryl
was an ultra-rare and unfortunately destructive storm. For nearly every hour she churned, an early-season record was being shattered. She was:
- The earliest-forming Cat 5 in recorded history (surpassing Emily-2005).
- The earliest-forming Cat 4 (surpassing
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Hurricane
#Beryl
is an absolutely unhinged tropical cyclone. After briefly looking like she’d succumbed to the relentless shear, she surged back to life with a fanatical vengeance, rewrapping herself in ultra-cold, hail-filled convective layers that have insulated her oblong eye
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Hurricane
#Idalia
is official—you can see her truly starting to twirl now. 80 mph and a 977 mb. core, with recon finding it has fallen to ~974 right now. The central engine is wrapping up. The ceiling is high and she wants to break through it. Prepare for rapid intensification.
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The new NHC cone for Tropical Storm
#Beryl
has shifted east, and it now takes the center of this pernicious storm directly through the Houston, Texas metro area after landfall. Damaging 80-90 mph wind gusts and flooding rainfall are now anticipated for significant portions of the
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As she stripped Carriacou Island of its life, Hurricane
#Beryl
’s convective flesh rippled with wicked fervor. Now, her skin boils of frigid bitterness, as does her 946 mb. heart. The Hurricane Hunters whisper of Cat 5 winds in every quadrant of her eyewall. Does she dare dethrone
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In just 24 hours,
#Hurricane
#Otis
went from an unremarkable 50 mph Tropical Storm, to a wickedly catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane—an increase in winds of 115 mph and a core pressure drop of 77 mb. during that time. Overnight, he struck the city of
#Acapulco
, currently cut off
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If Hurricane
#Beryl
is retired, she would be the first B-name storm to have their name retired since Hurricane Bob in 1991.
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@US_Stormwatch
The tornadic urges of
#Beryl
's rainbands today were downright palpable. She has possibly rivaled Hurricane Ivan (2004) for the most tornados ever spawned by a U.S. Hurricane. Yet another near record-breaking impact by this historic and unprecedented Atlantic tempest.
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Hurricane Zeta (2020) was really trying to blend in with her surroundings.
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The tropical rainfall that is now moving over El Salvador is being caused by two dogged areas of disturbed weather: the budding Central American gyre (which is currently centered in southern Mexico), and a trough of low pressure in the Pacific Ocean. Together, these budding
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Hurricane
#Beryl
isn’t done yet. With the latest NHC advisory, her extreme sustained winds have risen to 155 mph—just ~2 mph short of Category 5 strength. Her core pressure has also plunged to 938 mb., as intense sinking convergence warms the air in her eye to blistering
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Category 3 Hurricane Jeanne (2004), the last Major Hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. East Coast.
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@US_Stormwatch
#Beryl
now has a near-flawless eye. Based on this satellite image, she is clearly going for a high-end Category 4 intensity.
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Hurricane
#Beryl
is a frozen tropical concoction in a Caribbean blender. Her convection’s staying iced and the eye is attempting to clear again. The models said she’d be thawing at this point—but instead, her battle-scarred eyewall has remained intact. As a consequence of this,
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This happened just 31 days into the Hurricane season.
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This
#Tornado
is ripping apart power lines and lighting up the night sky with a terrifying blue in the city of Huntsville, Alabama. Take cover now—nocturnal tornados like this one can be especially dangerous as they prowl through the stormy shadows.
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I think we may have underestimated how impassioned Tropical Storm
#Beryl
’s desire to become a cyclonic celebrity is. No other Atlantic storm has ever been as strong as she is this far east in the month of June, and if the NHC’s forecast verifies, she could become a Major
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Traffic cam video from just moments ago of the wickedly intense
#Tornado
-warned thunderstorm that’s currently roaring through Bentonville, Arkansas.
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Hurricane
#Beryl
’s radar presentation is incredibly impressive. Multiple distinct curls of extremely intense rainbands continue to roll onshore with a tempestuous vengeance, feeding into an alarming flash flood threat that’s growing by the minute. Matagorda, meanwhile, has been
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BREAKING: Hurricane
#Lee
is officially a CATEGORY 5 Hurricane as of the 11 pm NHC advisory, with winds of 160 mph and a pressure of 928 mb. He is forecast to reach 180 mph, which would potentially make him among the strongest Hurricanes ever recorded in the open Atlantic.
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This is the supercell thunderstorm that spawned the 2013 El Reno Tornado.
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Hurricane Emily (2005) is the only Category 5 Atlantic cyclone ever recorded before the month of August.
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There is now a confirmed
#Tornado
on the south side of Baltimore, Maryland lifting significant quantities of debris into the air. Power flashes were just observed on this traffic cam.
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Alberto, Beryl, and Chris - the first three named storms of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
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It’s June 28th and the MDR assembly line is already churning out tropical waves like Ford Model Ts? Indeed, as Invest
#95L
’s vivacious curls take her imminently closer to Tropical Depression status, another cluster of thunderstorms is chasing after her with earnest. Go even
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Hurricane
#Beryl
, in the face of almost every historical precedent, has become a Category 3 Major Hurricane overnight, with winds of 115 mph and a minimum pressure of 968 mb. She greets us this sunrise with an eye that is gleaming wickedly in the shadows of her malevolent
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@US_Stormwatch
Have already been feeling the effects of this stifling heat in Texas. The Desert writes many stories under the wavering air of summer's tempestuous fever.
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An EWRC has punctured a hole in the burning, tire-like eyewall of Hurricane
#Beryl
, as evidenced by a series of structurally damaging convective bursts that have been exploding in the SE quadrant. Let us hope—for everyone in Grenada, Tobago, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines—that
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Surrounded by a cackling pack of wind shear coyotes, Category 4 Hurricane
#Beryl
has been bitten and beleaguered throughout the day, with her winds now spinning at 150 mph. Nevertheless, she is holding her core together well, and will likely be an extremely dangerous 125-130 mph
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I believe Hurricane
#Beryl
will surpass 2005’s Hurricane Dennis as the earliest Category 4 Atlantic cyclone by this afternoon. All indications are that explosive intensification is still ongoing within her frigidly violent core, and the eye continues to freeze sharper and denser
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Category 4 Hurricane Bret (1999), one of the most powerful Atlantic cyclones ever to form in the Bay of Campeche.
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BREAKING: Hurricane
#Beryl
now has savage sustained winds of 130 mph, making her the earliest Category 4 Hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. We are officially in uncharted tropical territory with this storm—there is no longer any historical precedent or analog cyclone
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Tropical Storm
#Beryl
is shedding her formative shell and beginning to mutate into a spiny, formidable storm that’s hungry for more. At 60 mph and 999 mb., she’s strengthening by leaps and bounds—and with every rainband that wraps protectively around what will soon be a distinct
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Tropical Storm
#Beryl
is spinning into a Sunday cream cheese bagel this morning, though dry air is taking a sizable bite out of her northern quadrant. Until this system closes off her eyewall and creates a safe, moist nest for her eye to deepen within, strengthening will continue
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It wasn’t until several hours after the cold of night’s darkness had befallen the Central Plains that the twisters decided to descend from the clouds to hunt. Under the cover of these violently stormy shadows, one
#Tornado
after the other carved out trails of mayhem from North
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Tropical Storm
#Beryl
is a griddle of Saturday scrambled eggs this morning, made rather dry by overcooking and too much salt. The level of destruction that the Yucatán inflicted on her core has been a good thing to see, as this is making her reconstruction process (which is now
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Rumor has it that Tropical Depression Two has given her valedictory speech and is now graduating to Tropical Storm
#Beryl
, making her the 2nd named storm of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. She is already strengthening faster than the initial cone foretold, so we may soon see
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A new, needle-sharp
#Tornado
just abruptly cratered out of the sky and struck a direct blow to the town of Rogers, Arkansas. This twister is confirmed to still be holding firm to the ground as of now. Prairie Creek, seek shelter NOW!
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Typhoon Noru (2017) may be one of the most bizarre Pacific Typhoons of all time.
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Hurricane Dennis (2005) held the title for the strongest July cyclone in Atlantic history for only 6 days before Emily stole it from him.
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@US_Stormwatch
Tropical Storm
#Alberto
, devastating wildfire floods in Ruidoso, and now behemoth dust storms. What a dizzying day of extreme weather.
(Sat-image credit: NWS El Paso)
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Hurricane Dennis and Hurricane
#Beryl
—the two earliest-forming Category 4s in the recorded history of the Atlantic Basin. Dennis would eventually become known as the often-overshadowed opening act of the hyperactive 2005 season. What has Beryl set the stage for?
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Hurricane
#Beryl
went from an oblong blob of thunderstorms to an ice-cold, symmetrical cyclone in just ~3 hours before her eyewall gnashed across Jamaica’s southern shores.
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It’s 2:30 am CDT, yet somehow we are looking at one of the most unbelievable hook-echo structures of the day. The furious supercell in NW Arkansas continues to rip with fanatical lightning, torrential rainfall, and the ever-present threat of a
#Tornado
that will soon put
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As of the 5 pm advisory, Hurricane
#Lee
is now a Category 4 storm with winds of 130 mph and a pressure of 953 mb. In what has already been a genuinely incredible phase of rapid intensification, Lee is not nearly done, as the NHC has now upped his potential peak intensity to 165
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Huge columns of electrically cold convection are firing upwards in the core of Tropical Depression Two, as she looks to be entering into the classical plumpy stage this evening. Again, it is simply astounding to see an MDR storm organize this swimmingly in the inaugural month of
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Category 1 Hurricane
#Beryl
has made landfall over Matagorda, Texas, marking the first U.S. landfall of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Her winds are spinning at a bizarrely robust 80 mph, while her minimum core pressure has dropped further to 979 mb. Heading into sunrise,
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Hurricane
#Beryl
was almost a coldly mirrored image of Hurricane Delta (2020) at landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula.
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The NHC is warning that, “Atmospheric and oceanic conditions, atypical for this time of year, are fairly favorable for strengthening the next few days…”. The GFS is frequently an overexcited model, but it’s unofficial projection that Tropical Storm
#Beryl
could be a Cat 2+
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Hurricane Grace (2021) explosively intensifying in the Bay of Campeche’s tropical crucible.
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Hurricane
#Beryl
's spectral remains have fomented a near-historic trail of severe weather wreckage over the past couple of days. From Houston, Texas to Buffalo, New York, Post-Tropical Cyclone Beryl has triggered a staggering 200+ Tornado Warnings during the course of her inland
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Oh my Katrina, look at that electric explosion of eyewall lightning in the very last frame!
#Hurricane
#Otis
is absolutely detonating right now in the Eastern Pacific, and could bring unfathomable wind gusts as high as 195 mph to the coastline immediately NW of
#Acapulco
, and
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The veil of darkness has lifted over Tropical Storm
#Beryl
, revealing her snowy, cyclonic face to be a soft swirl of convection that luckily does not yet have an especially robust core structure. In these final 24 hours before landfall, Beryl will be dipping into the warmest
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#Beryl
is back on the Hurricane saddle, attaining winds of 75 mph and a minimum pressure of 985 mb. as she approaches Houston and SE Texas. Her eyewall is arcing in the reflection of the crescent Moon, and her gales have intensified to a dangerous high. We will be going LIVE with
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Forged in the fiery convergence of handshaking hot towers that are as cold as the surface of Mars, Hurricane
#Beryl
’s eye and eyewall are now taking shape within the storm’s rapidly intensifying nucleus. By the time she is ripping through St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday,
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The new NHC cone is out for Tropical Storm
#Beryl
, maintaining an 85+ mph, Category 1 landfall in Port Lavaca, Texas. The system has been broiling under the dry afternoon sun for the last few hours, mushrooming hot tower convective bursts on the west side but getting withered
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New video captured by
@janelle_loftin
of the massive and violent tornado that just inflicted catastrophic damage near Waterloo and Elkhorn, NE.
@ryanhallyall
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The “Convective Couple”—a pair of overshooting thunderstorms on opposite sides of a cyclone’s eyewall, representative of impending intensification—have finally made their appearance in Tropical Storm
#Beryl
. We were lucky they did not take the rotational dance floor at sunrise
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Hurricane Celia churning like an ice-chilled bucket of buttermilk strawberry sherbet, as she freezes into a Category 5 Pacific tempest on June 24th, 2010.
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Today, the
@WMO
retired the name Otis from the Pacific Hurricane naming list, replacing it with Otilio for the 2029 season.
On October 25, 2023,
#Hurricane
#Otis
fulfilled what the
@NHC_Pacific
called a "nightmare scenario", when his winds increased by 105 mph in the final 21
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Hurricane
#Beryl
is steamrolling closer to rapid intensification tonight. Yes, she has become the easternmost June Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin’s history—but she does not appear to be satisfied with this. Consequently, Beryl is scavenging the tropics like an execrable
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As a ring of inky, tar-like convection upwells around Tropical Storm
#Beryl
’s S and SE quadrants, Hurricane Hunter recon has just reported a drop in the storm’s central pressure to 985 mb., as well as a slight uptick in winds to 70 mph. Beryl may soon be on the cusp of Hurricane
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This volumetric radar scan shows the violent 2021 Mayfield Tornado propelling debris more than 30,000 ft. into the atmosphere.
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