Re:Live View of Hurricane Laura
by purple-again on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:16PM
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What is unprecedented about this hurricane?
The extreme rapid intensification over the last 24-36 hours is record setting I believe. And presently it is still strengthening and will potentially set many records - I suppose I shouldn't speak too soon with 'unprecedented' but all signs indicate this will be an extreme event.
God, itβd be incredible if this became a Category 6 in 2020. Hurricane Dorian almost hit that milestone.
FWIW there is no official category 6, as 5 is deemed as essentially total destruction and there isn't much need for a 6. It's a topic of debate however.
Also Laura may reach a minimal category 5 but is unlikely to intensify past baseline 5 status.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe... (US android app), source code I write for the clever 'background' sensor data on Android here [1] and animation of the non-landfalling Hurricane Dorian last year as viewed from phones in Eastern Florida [2]
I think with Laura landfalling and travelling across the US for a while, there should be a lot of interesting and maybe useful surface-pressure readings to be had.
Stay safe if you are anywhere near this hurricane. It is ...unprecedented.
[1] https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary
[2] https://www.allclearweather.com/hurricane-dorian
Also I suppose it's important to shoutout /r/tropicalweather, just about the best community on reddit. Their megathreads and links are always useful. https://reddit.com/r/tropicalweather