#rapidintensification — Public Fediverse posts

"#TyphoonGaemi, a powerful Pacific storm, is blasting #Taiwan after tracing a bizarre loop-de-loop. Taiwan’s east coast was hammered by the storm’s intense inner core twice.

Gaemi rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm overnight Tuesday into Wednesday local time, peaking with winds around 150 mph."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/24/typhoon-gaemi-path-taiwan-explained/
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From the ballad of #RapidIntensification

"#HurricaneLidia, a Category 4 storm, roared ashore Tuesday night about 35 miles south-southwest of #PuertoVallarta on #Mexico’s west coast. The major hurricane was expected to unleash flooding rains, destructive winds and a dangerous ocean surge.

Lidia intensified with remarkable haste, growing from a tropical storm with 70 mph winds on Monday evening to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds 24 hours later."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/10/10/hurricane-lidia-mexico-puerto-vallarta/

To spell it out for the #US east coast: Heat lingers more south of Florida where #hurricanes can pick up more power and more moisture, faster, so #RapidIntensification.

As they travel north, that moisture comes down as #ExtremePrecipitation, meaning record #rain.

Meanwhile #StormSurge is whipped up by stronger winds in the hurricane. And gets amplified by the #SeaLevelRise from the slowed ocean current.

Batten down the hatches, East Coast.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-definitively-gulf-stream-weakening.html