and with a cool clock, nonetheless
I want a front range train 😭

what was the upstream pattern like? It felt like steering flow was consistent (and a bit wacky) all the way over to the west pac too

if it's anything like Dairy Queen's frozen hot chocolate, it's much much thicker than milk.

aww man, that's a bummer :(

Sometimes I wonder if people think "oh, we're the 3rd most populous country in the world, we must not be that far behind India/China"

not realizing that we're 3rd by a large margin and really not that much bigger than Indonesia....

now how do we get asian carp (and zebra mussels?) under control...

fully engaged in our meeting huh 😅
(says the person replying to this post)

according to my *very accurate* google search earlier, Taiwan is ~3 times the size of Jamaica? and the CMR is taller too, I believe.

I'm not sure whether anyone's quantified the 3-D size of a mountainous island needed to deflect a TC's track, but if it persists, that could be a contributing factor (among others).

probably one of the more intense ones I've seen? maybe because it's so shallow?
(not sure to what degree other atmospheric circulations are contributing)

it's quite a unique case!

imagery from @cira-csu.bsky.social

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