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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 03:14:35 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   still haven't been able to ask my weather scientist friend so let me put this out to the fediverse:

   i don't ever remember seeing a #hurricane take the path #Helene took. i consider it an incredibly abnormal path. to me, it moved more like a tornado.

   has anybody come across any commentary, articles or even pre-review papers addressing that?

   #Milton #Kirk #Irene are the common hurricane paths i’ve seen of my decades of paying attention to hurricanes. #Helene’s path was just whack.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 06:13:30 JST feld

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     @superflippy @blogdiva the atmosphere is also taller at the equator so the combination of the mountains and the lower atmosphere would compress the storm and pull out even more moisture as it goes further north
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     Susanna (superflippy@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 06:13:31 JST Susanna

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     @blogdiva What was unusual about Helene is that it was so poorly organized plus surrounded by tons of hot air, which allowed a huge amount of moisture to latch on. This is a climate change thing. The remnants of hurricanes follow this path all the time, but they’re usually tiny rainstorms by then, barely even depressions. I’ve been through many. Helene was supercharged & didn’t peter out before it got to us!

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     Susanna (superflippy@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 06:13:32 JST Susanna

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     @blogdiva Milton is actually a really unusual path as well, starting in the western gulf then hitting Tampa. I just read a (horribly paywalled, sorry) story about it: https://apple.news/AkzJMEIWYTFeB0-N75tNl2g