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Originally Posted by flylock shox
Am I out of touch or did this storm get no press?
This is the first of it I've heard and it's huge.
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Part of the issue is the speed at which it strengthened. It gained 64 knots in wind speed (just short of 75mph) in 24 hours. It'd be like a storm not existing one day and then the next it's a cat 1 hurricane. The pressure drop that just bombed out in this thing is kind of fascinating.
I'm a weather dork, ignore me.
Edit: reading up more on the storm, in a 26 hour period the pressure inside the system dropped 103mb. That's a record for strengthening, which is probably why no one had heard of this storm until today. It went from a tropical storm to a Cat 5 monster in about 28 hours. That's just unreal.