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[🧵; 1/18] .2024, a year with a lot of ups and downs. But enough about that, let’s give a breakdown of how 2024 was in weather as we take you down to the 2024 WxWrapUp.
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This is a large and clear cut tornado in Springfield, #Tennessee around 30min ago. #TNwx #severewx .📹: @larrySi51733273 .
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Two images from the immense destruction in Rolling Fork, #Mississippi. Buildings & homes were flattened & cars were tossed. To view the full set of pictures, please view this link from Tim Jones on Facebook: #MSwx #severewx
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Footage of inside the eyewall in #Carriacou, #Grenada as Hurricane #Beryl blasted through. In the aftermath, much of the island is ripped to shreds & many buildings sustained significant damage. #HurricaneBeryl #GRDwx #tropicswx . 📹: Hon. Ron Redhead & Hunters S&R Team
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#BREAKING: ATCF has upped the wind speeds of #Mocha to a Category 5 cyclone with winds of 140kt (160mph) & a pressure of 919mb. This is the 1st C5 cyclone in the basin since Amphan ‘20. This dangerous storm will be at or near this intensity at landfall. #tropicswx #MochaCyclone
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Here’s some of the image’s from the wrath of #Otis in Acapulco, #Guerrero. Heavy structural damage blasted trees & buildings. More scenes like this are gonna be revealed come daylight unfortunately. #tropicswx #HuracanOtis #HurricaneOtis
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Insane tornado that took place in Jalan Bani Bu Ali, #AshSharqiyah South Governorate, #Oman. Notice the insane amount of dust & the rapid tornadic rotation. Sadly, this tornado damage structures & killed several animals. 📹: @ahmedalzadjali .#severewx .
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Here’s the video of the tornado that was in Shreveport, #Louisiana moments earlier. 📹: Tony Serio via Facebook (link will be below). #LAwx #severewx .
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Ground view of the Princess Hotel in Acapulco, #Guerrero. The scope of the destruction is asinine. #Otis #HuracánOtis #tropicswx . 📹: @Jonatan93294410 .
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Sunlight reveals that Acapulco, #Guerrero is in shambles. The city is in a mess with debris scattered around. If you take a look at the 3rd picture, you can even see AC units thrown around. It takes some power to move those things. #tropicswx #Otis #HuracanOtis #HurricaneOtis
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Winds are insane in Port Fourchon, #Louisiana. You can see the towering storm surge pile up as well. Insane is an understatement. Owner of the video is unknown at this time. #LAwx #Tropics #Ida #HurricaneIda
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Here's the radar loops of both Charley '04 & #Ian '22. Both made landfall at the exact same spot just 18 years, 1 month, 16 days apart. They made landfall at the same windspeed intensity but Ian was stronger by 1mb. #FLwx #tropicswx #HurricaneIan
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As 10 years pass by after the tragic deaths of 4 storm chasers, Richard Henderson & the 3 members of the Twistex Team, those being Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young, we express our condolences to the people and storm chasers who were killed by this massive EF3 tornado
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Wow, mean looking wall cloud or possibly a tornado there in Bowling Green, #Kentucky. #KYwx #severewx . 📹: @Kyle_Tasman .
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Significant structural & vehicle damage from the tornado in Clarksville, #Tennessee. Trucks are on their sides & a building has been destroyed. #TNwx #severewx .📷: Nick Beres NC5. Link- .
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A close call, a large piece of wall on a high rise in #Shanghai, #China falls to the ground as the winds of Typhoon #Bebinca peel it off. #tropicswx #CHNwx #TyphoonBebinca .
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"Tornadoes don't happen in December" . If you're in the #USA, you know that is certainly not true. Prior to 2023, there have been over 2,000 tornadoes in the country with most concentrating in the Deep South & MS River Valley. They have been a thing as far back as 1830 as far as
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#Dora has spent a whopping 122 hours as a Category 4 hurricane & counting, more than any other Pacific hurricane on record. The old record was 96 hours set by Hector '18. Dora reaching this far from being an Atlantic Invest originally is an amazing fleet. #tropicswx
#HurricaneDora has remained a Category 4 storm for four straight days. It's forecast to become the first storm in 6 YEARS to cross the Date Line and become a Typhoon. Do you think #Dora will make it all the way across the Pacific? #FWMetChat
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Neat view of the tornado in Abbeville, #Alabama w/ the low base earlier. #ALwx #severewx .@NWSTallahassee .📷 Wesley Potter (Facebook):
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Not liking what we're seeing. Immense destruction in Perryton, #Texas. A single image isn't going to do justice so please view Jeff's link down below. #TXwx #severewx @NWSAmarillo
Massive tornado damage Perryton TX. via @YouTube.
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Video & some images of major damage in Selma, #Alabama. Hoping for the best of those in the path of this horrific tornado. #ALwx #severewx @NWSBirmingham . These are from Facebook. Credits will be given below.
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Horseshoe Beach, #Florida is getting rocked by powerful storm surge. This is only the beginning. High tide is coming. #FLwx #tropicswx #Helene.
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Picture of the tornado that impacted Florence, #Mississippi. There’s reports of damage there. @NWSJacksonMS #MSwx #severewx . 📷: Cindy Vreeland (Facebook)
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Tornado in progress. This was taken near Katy, #Texas. @NWSHouston #TXwx #severewx . 📷: Justin Mancera (Facebook)
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Ludlow, #Vermont in shambles after catastrophic flooding plagued the town. After the water clears, we’ll see the true scope of it & hopefully the recovery effort will go well for there & other VT towns. 📹: @HenrySwenson .#VTwx #flood .
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If it wasn’t for #Idalia, would be talking about #Franklin all day. What’s there not to love about good ol Franklin? It’s every meteorologist dream, a powerful & picturesque tropical cyclone with little to no impacts to land areas. #tropicswx
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#BREAKING: We officially have a reading of 897mb from the Thurston Island Station, #Antarctica. This has bound to break some records, not just in the Southern Hemisphere but the world likely. #wx
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Videos are surfacing of the extreme winds & storm surge in Sittwe, #Rakhine, #Myanmar. #Mocha made landfall there & the destruction was intense. #MochaCyclone #tropicswx .📹: Justin Mizo (See full video on Facebook) .
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A view of Acapulco, #Guerrero from above. The scene from this high goes to show how insanely widespread the damage is from #Otis. 📹:@PedroMrquez_ .#tropicswx #HuracanOtis #HurricaneOtis .
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Picture from Snapchat of the tornado that's near Fort Worth, #Texas. You can make out the funnel touching the ground here. #TXwx #severewx @NWSFortWorth
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#BREAKING: Hurricane Ian ‘22 is now considered a Category 5 after reanalysis with winds of 140kt (160mph) & an unusual pressure of 937mb. The landfall in Cayo Costa, #Florida is still 150mph. It’s the Atlantic’s 1st C5 of the 2020s decade. #tropicswx.
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New Facebook video shows the tornado in New Orleans, #Louisiana near Harvey several minutes ago. That rotation is cranking. 📹: Juan Perez.#LAwx #severewx .Link:
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Yet another devastating image of the Clarksville, #Tennessee tornado showing numerous piles of debris looking like a junk yard just piled on. Awful situation. #TNwx #severewx . 📷: Brittany Ann. Link- .
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Here's a video loop of both Hurricane #Francine '24 & Hurricane Zeta '20. Both of their eyewalls went into the New Orleans metro causing flooding & wind damage. #tropicswx #LAwx
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Destructive winds making its way through the heart of New Orleans. This is Canal St. here sustaining big time winds. #Ida #HurricaneIda #LAwx #Tropics . Credits of this video: @Ginger_Zee/@ABC
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That aged so poorly….
#18E's forecast cone is here & it should move rather slowly to the north & make a turn to the left, away from southern #Mexico. It's likely to become a brief TS before all is said and done & impacts should remain minimal or non-existent. The next name is #Otis. #tropicswx
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Damage pictures continue to roll in from Matador TX Via News 9!.Link:
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Worth noting that the far range ensembles have #02A reach #Oman for direct impact. This is something we have to mention & given this, the folks there need to start seriously watching this. #tropicswx
While the JTWC has #02A at TS intensity, the IMD for some strange reason still has this as a Deep Depression. Yet, a core has developed on the system & pretty soon, this may reach C1 intensity. Let’s hope the IMD will finally name this sooner than later. In terms of land impacts,
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Wedge tornado on the ground near Bowie, #Texas. This is a dangerous situation. #TXwx #TORNADOWARNING . Image from the @NEWS9
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COPARMEX has estimated that the damage toll of Hurricane Otis is at least $11.5B USD ($200-$300 billion MX Pesos), becoming the costliest TC in #Mexico’s history & all of the EPac. This is $7.3B higher than Manuel ‘13’s damage toll, nearly 3 times higher. #tropicswx
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#wxhistory: .[🧵; 2feat.] .#OTDwx: It was a Killer, Mega, Storm of the Century. The Super Outbreak of '74 happened 50 years ago & changed lives, towns, & forecasting as we know it. This w/o a doubt was the most prolific tornado outbreak in history & nothing would ever come
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Here’s video in Zieirikzee #Zeeland, #Netherlands of the tornado lifting up debris in the air. Video from Facebook by Art of Thunders storm chasers. Link in the comments. #EUwx #severewx
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We thank y’all for the amazing support! We have hundreds of contributors supporting this project in remembering the lives of the 4 beloved storm chasers.- Tim Samaras .- Paul Samaras.- Carl Young.- Richard Henderson. Unlike Spotter Dots, this will remain permanent! . To find your
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Look at #22W (#KristinePH), it’s HUGE! Embedded in a monsoonal trough, 22W stretches from near #Vietnam to #Guam / #CNMI. Roughly this stretches nearly 4,000km (2,485mi), this is nearly the same distance as Washington (State) to Florida. #tropicswx
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#BREAKING: Cyclone #Ilsa has made landfall 69mi east of Port Hedland, #WesternAustralia. This is the strongest cyclone to make landfall in #Australia since Yasi ‘11, & the strongest cyclone to make landfall in WA on record! . Ilsa made history! #tropicswx #WAStorm
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Facebook video of the New Iberia, #Louisiana tornado with those multi-vortices. #LAwx #severewx . 📹: Hailey Badeaux .Link:
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On the traffic cameras in Henderson, #Tennessee, something must have profusely exploded in the midst of the tornado. Hoping for something that’s not extreme. #TNwx #severewx
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This is what hit Rolling Fork, #Mississippi. An extremely strong VROT signature of 86.4kts & debris height of 32kft. This is a violent tornado. #MSwx #severewx
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More damage pics we could find in the aftermath of the Freemont, #Kentucky tornado. Major structural damage has been reported throughout the town w/ homes losing their roofs & trees & power lines down. #KYwx #severewx .📷:@davethompson77 (last image).McCracken Co Sheriff (FB)
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#Roslyn really did a number on many #Nayarit communities. This video for example is just one of many instances of destructive winds from Roslyn. This was in Acaponeta. #tropicswx #HurricaneRoslyn . 📹:@chavitta21 .
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[🧵2] #OTDwx: Hurricane Irma ‘17 was an insane C5 beast ravaging much of the Caribbean. Irma made multiple C5 landfalls & was 1 of the longest lasting C5s in the basin. Irma is the 2nd strongest landfall in storm in the basin. The extremity of the storm was crazy. (1/2)
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Crazy tree damage that’s reminiscent of derecho or hurricane damage. This is also from Crozon, #Brittany, #France. All of these trees toppled like dominoes all from #Ciaran’s wrath. #StormCiaran #EUwx . 📹:@TimTim7300.
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New video after a catastrophic dam collapse led to an extreme amount of water rushing into #Derna, #Libya due to Medicane #Daniel. #LibyaFloods #StormDaniel #flood .
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New video out of Virginia Beach, #VAwx recorded by Ed Stonich via facebook shows the damaging #tornado that hit the area this afternoon! #wxtwitter #virginia #virginiabeach
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Not something yall wanna hear right now but #Milton’s eyewall replacement cycle has concluded with a near pinhole eye of 12nm which could get smaller as it contracts. You can see the progression of the EWRC on MW imagery. Re-strengthening is expected again. #tropicswx
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#tropicswx #BRAwx: . #BREAKING: We now have Tropical Storm #Akará! Akará is now the 1st named tropical storm in the South Atlantic since Iba ‘19 & the 1st named storm in February since Bapo ‘15. It will continue to intensify a bit more as time goes on, likely remaining well away
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The newest Day 2 outlook for excessive rainfall has a larger area in a HIGH risk in the Los Angeles Metro. 2 days with back to back high risk in a highly populated area is something you’d hate to see. #CAwx #flood
Back to back days of Extreme Flooding for the Los Angeles Metro & S #California coast. This will be a dangerous event that will disrupt travel, damage property & put lives in jeopardy. Prepare accordingly! #CAwx #flood
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More pictures are surfacing in Sittwe, #Rakhine, #Myanmar. This storm surge is massive & going into homes & businesses, including this one on the 3rd image. 📷: English With Elena (See all the images on Facebook) .#Mocha #MochaCyclone #tropicswx .
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#HurricaneOtis #tropicswx: .The following is stats on Hurricane #Otis along with the ranking in the Top 5 strongest landfalling storms in #Mexico's history both pressure-wise & wind-wise. Top 5 Strongest Landfalling TCs in Mexico (Wind).- 1st - 175mph: Janet '55, Anita '77, Dean
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#wxhistory:.[🧵] #OTDwx: When you think of “THE typhoon” what comes to mind? Many will say Super Typhoon Haiyan ‘13 (Yolanda) & rightfully so. Haiyan changed Palau & the Philippines history completely. The intensity was definitely nothing to scoff at. Haiyan peaked at 195mph & a
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#Mawar went literal Sicko Mode as it’s now have a uniformed CDO & a circular eye. With winds of 150kts / 175mph, it’s the strongest typhoon in May since Damrey ‘00. Thankfully, no landmasses are in the way in the short term. #tropicswx
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#Mawar is thankfully intensifying post-#Guam. As previously stated, it’s expected to become a super typhoon once again & likely reach Category 5 status. Conditions are favorable for intensification, especially w/ high OHC, lessening shear & great moisture content #tropicswx #GUwx
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#wxhistory:.[🧵2] #OTDwx: This marks the beginning of the adventure of Forever Freddy. Cyclone Freddy ‘23 would form S of Indonesia & make its way into Southern Africa, becoming a C5 twice & having 7 rapid intensification phases. Freddy beats John ‘94 as the longest lasting TC on
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Video & pictures of this picturesque tornado in Vileikiai, #Lithuania. Classic low precip supercell with a clear RFD & inflow surge to juice up this cone tornado. Buildings took a beating & nearly destroyed at some places. #LTUwx #severewx . 📹: Orai ir klimatas Lietuvoje
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MARINHA in #Brazil has declared this system as a Subtropical Depression. They explicitly forecast this to become a subtropical storm & then a tropical storm. The next name on the list is #Akará. Rough surf is the main threat from this system. #tropicswx #BRAwx
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The damage & the tornado itself in New Iberia, #Louisiana. The 1st image is the Medical Center. 📷: (From Multiple people on Facebook; links will be in the replies) #LAwx #severewx @NWSLakeCharles
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