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Does it make anyone else feel a little queasy almost? I mean, it is obviously something to be fearful of if your know that hurricane is heading over your house/country but I find it terrifying in another way. The utter enormity of it, it's actually hard to grasp.
I keep watching it as it's both incredible to watch and terrifying at the same time.
Very glad not to be on aircraft sent into hurricanes like this!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwypk4e3v3lo
I find that very relaxing.
God i would love that job.
Nothing like on the same scale, but there is a youtube channel of drones being flow into tornados....
https://www.youtube.com/@The_OTUS_Project
My colleague and her family flew to the Dominican Republic yesterday. Not in direct firing line but bad enough over there.
I was living in the Dominican Republic when Hurricane Georges hit the country. It passed right over our house. We had a flat concrete roof so were safe, but the drains filled with shredded leaf debris and water came pouring in via holes and cable conduit. The winds battered us from one side for hours and then almost suddenly they dropped. I climbed on the roof to unblock the drains and there was a wall of sinister grey cloud surrounding us, and above there were actually areas of blue sky.
All around me was a cacophony of hammering as my neighbours tried to repair their tin roofs. Then the cloud wall came closer, the winds grew stronger and the rain hit us. I ran back inside and the wind battered us for hours in the other direction.
like a thoughtless idiot, as the storm was approaching I was kind of excited. While it was over us the novelty soon wore off. I thought I had experienced strong winds; growing up in a bedroom with a view of Lundy I had slept through many gales… but this was something else. The next morning I woke to a calm sunny day and the absolute destruction and misery left by the hurricane. I felt guilty for my excitement in anticipation the day before. I spent the next two months trying to reach the communities I worked in, delivering supplies and working on recovery plans. I am thinking of all those in Jamaica who will suffer the same or worse.
Looks a little like the Ryanair flight I caught this afternoon.
Watching that video, a couple of things struck me, the oblique angle of the bands of cloud in the eye wall, and how slowly the clouds seemed to be moving.
It looks like the meteorological research plane is a C-130 J, judging by the six-blade props, a big aircraft, but still likely to have its wings ripped off and be torn to pieces like a Sparrowhawk grabbing a sparrow, should something happen and it goes through the eye wall.
Still, given a chance to be taken into the eye of a big hurricane, I’d jump at it!
but still likely to have its wings ripped off and be torn to pieces like a Sparrowhawk grabbing a sparrow, should something happen and it goes through the eye wall.
Surely it went through the wall to get there?
Honestly I loved the typhoons we had in Japan. Of course we were in a reasonably solid house (only Japanese, not really very solid!) and had minimal direct risk of landslide or flooding, but they were dramatic and fascinating events. Sympathy to those not equipped to weather the storms.
I find that very relaxing.
You wouldn't if you'd been there 😉
Watching that video, a couple of things struck me, the oblique angle of the bands of cloud in the eye wall, and how slowly the clouds seemed to be moving.
It looks like the meteorological research plane is a C-130 J, judging by the six-blade props, a big aircraft, but still likely to have its wings ripped off and be torn to pieces like a Sparrowhawk grabbing a sparrow, should something happen and it goes through the eye wall.
Still, given a chance to be taken into the eye of a big hurricane, I’d jump at it!
Very much this.
The crew suspected that the aircraft had been overstressed and turned back early. They recorded 252mph winds and 893mb of central pressure to help future forecasts.
They had to fly around inside for 35 minutes with an over-stressed aircraft to find a safe exit
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They recorded 252mph winds and 893mb of central pressure to help future forecasts.
😲 😲
Honestly, feel for anyone having to go through that. Storms in the UK aren't really comparable, even though they can be bad enough. Closest I've come to that was a tornado in Sydney, Australia. Hiding behind the couch while you can hear tiles getting ripped off your roof isn't much fun and this will be way worse than that.
Hopefully not a daft question, if the aircraft was stressed, would it have been possible to climb outside the eye and exit that way? Or do the winds also impact above the cloud levels?