Mesmerizing, suspenseful satellite imagery of the life of #Ian
From tropical wave to catastrophic to post-tropical
#weather #meteorology
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Stu Ostro
@StuOstro
Weather-obsessed wx geek & proud to be! Wx = power of universe | NJ | | Sr Meteorologist 30+ yrs | 
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Hypnotizing & horrifying -- from a shallow cloud swirl to the landfall of an extreme Category 5 #hurricane #Dorian
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Sinister-looking face of #HurricaneMatthew at landfall in #Haiti [Un-doctored #weather #satellite image]
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Extraordinary #sunset w/jaw-dropping #mammatus Tue eve as severe storm approached #Albuquerque. Pano stitch accentuated the curves a bit, but the clouds really did look like that – in fact hard to do justice to what it was like to see this from N to S & horizon to overhead! #nmwx
The sun sets on boiling convection in the roiling core of #Laura, on this eve of destruction. It's going to be a long night and days ahead, and long recovery. Thinking of those in the path of this extremely dangerous #hurricane.
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Watch the wave emanating from the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai eruption initiate new convection #volcanology #meteorology
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Why I've been obsessed with #weather since I was an infant, this cloud yesterday being example # 827,091,011,091,461,719,750,814,199,411,719,978,181,917,121,819,203,091,946,316,194,850,114,530,747,393,493,264,759,067,043,431,090,873,645,178,398,630,807,256,362,848,475,912,171,958
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Wait wut? Looked to see where ex-#Michael was, and found that it and part of the morphed remnant of #Leslie have done a #Fujiwhara dance & merge. Yes, really >>
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Not every day you see a Category 4 hurricane and the shadow of a total solar eclipse passing by! #HurricaneBarbara #EclipseSolar2019
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The sun rises on the core of the strongest northwest #Bahamas #hurricane in modern records as it inexorably spins toward the islands with its mesmerizing eye mesovortices, and now the catastrophic eyewall is onshore😰 #Dorian
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I began my career as a professional meteorologist 40(!) years ago this week, and back then could only dream of the #weather #technology we have now!
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Crazy collision/merger of MCSs (thunderstorm systems) moving to the east & west #WeatherNeverCeasesToBeFascinating
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The long, captivating, catastrophic life of #Hurricane #Laura -- from tropical wave over eastern Africa on Aug 11 through Category 4 landfall to merger w/a nontropical system & exiting the US on 8/30. [Change in appearance partway thru the 352 frames is a switch of satellites.]
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I usually don't use shouting caps but #Hurricane #Laura has RAPIDLY INTENSIFIED with this stunning outflow and is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS -- people in the path need to TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW!
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We're used to seeing this type of spectacular imagery of mesovortices (typical of very intense tropical cyclones) spinning in the eye of W Pacific super typhoons; in the Atlantic and at this latitude not so much — a visual testament to how exceptional the threat from #Florence is
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What a wild & complex weather extremity—a 929 millibar beast followed by another meteorological bomb as the pressure of #StormDennis dropped to 920 (one of the lowest on record in this part of the world), & then the 2 combined into a massive cyclone while doing a #Fujiwhara dance
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So I was shooting a #drone #timelapse of this storm beyond the #Atlanta skyline, & captured something else.. Not #meteor, #cometNEOWISE or . That leaves plane or low-orbit satellite, illuminated by setting sun? Hard to tell what altitude is. Oh, and the storm is 😍
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Not something you see every day -- in fact this is officially the first tropical or subtropical cyclone in Alabama in May during the radar era or in the record prior (per bit.ly/2J1K3EE; historical data caveats apply) #Alberto #alwx
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