#Hurricane Hunter

[floridanative]

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

NOAA #HurricaneHunter mission en route to #Idalia early Monday morning.

[vaguelypresentt]

LUFFYS that I will never get around to fully finishing (and a single Zoro)

[ronthedunedain]

Here's the view from within the eye of the hurricane, taken by NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft N43RF Miss Piggy, a WP-3D Orion.

The so-called Stadium Effect is in full view.

Surprisingly, the Hurricane Hunter aircraft actually fly straight through the eye wall. It's incredibly calm within. They measure wind speed, direction, air pressure, etc. with dropsondes.

A gorgeous, upclose view of Hurricane Beryl's clear eye.

Beryl has now become the first June Category 4 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. I can't even stress enough just how completely absurd that storm is.

Satellite: GOES-16 Product: Visible (band 2) Instrument: ABI

[tempesttamers]

A lot of storm chasers don’t just go after tornados. In fact, a large amount of them also go after hurricanes. Kate and Tyler are hands down the tornado-whisperers, but what if Javi’s specialty is hurricanes?

The military deals a lot more with hurricanes than they do tornados, and given that more military bases are at the mercy of hurricanes, it makes sense that Javi would have spent more time with them. But maybe the Tornado Wanglers hadn’t branched out into hurricanes before.

Maybe they notice Javi missing from the parking lot party and find him sitting on the bed of a motel room with the tv on a weather channel covering this massive hurricane headed towards the east coast, phone on speaker as he talks to an old military buddy while he’s looking over data and models on his laptop.

[archivewriter1ont]

I like plotting dialogue in a script format before I actually rough draft a fic. I thought this little uncle-nephew scene would make somebody smile!

For context, Koda is my OC, Hunter's son, and twenty pounds of crazy in a five-pound bag. Echo and Crosshair are living the bachelor life on Pabu between Echo's stints with Rex when they get babysitting duty.

[schemelin]

i read the last quest and now i gotta ask: how about the pussy. where is it. WH- (jk)

she is ok and at home 👍

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Oh boy it must smell in those suits...

Lol, hunter...

Gritty would drown iceburgh

[cheapbourbon]

‘It doesn’t fucking snow in Luxor’ was the working title for this. Really it just entertains me that of the three of them, only Jake is comfortable in the snow, Khonshu and Badr would be miserable. 🤣

Bonus PNG sexy pidgin for all your bird dad needs.

[ukikimon]

Full info for the Monster Hunter x Digimon device is here, including pre-order video & pictures. Ok, goodnight.

[floridanative]

[alhilton]

Just curious, where do the lowland curbs go during a volontaro? I assume the highland ones have a nice tall cave somewhere!

Ah, good question. One might also ask where ferryshaft went who were living on the far side of the island before the war. It's implied that there have long been a population of ferryshaft, creasia, and telshees who shared the Great Cave during the volontaro and were committed to a truce during that time. This truce pre-dates the war by many generations and might even pre-date the creasia's ability to speak. It's safe to assume that the creasia have always lived mostly near the Great Cave. Their range is limited by their favored prey (deer) and habitat (dense forests). The Great Cave has always been their preferred refuge. The ferryshaft, however, are much more flexible. For most of ferryshaft history, herds would have been scattered all over the island. The Great Cave can't be the only safe place. I'm talking about this like I don't know the answer, because I don't. If I haven't committed to some world-building detail in the text, it's always up for grabs in future stories. I intentionally leave lots of loose ends, so that I have interesting places to go and things to discover and room to maneuver. So bearing in mind that I could change this later, I'll say that the lowland curbs probably have many different nooks and crannies where they shelter, and these locations have been passed down as carefully guarded secrets within various packs. If the pack is wiped out, the knowledge may be lost. Lowland curbs are tribal and territorial. Packs may cooperate on some large project for a while, but they are prone to bickering and feuding and never quite trust each other. They are much smaller animals than creasia or ferryshaft, and they also live in smaller groups, so a pack of curbs could take refuge some place that would be inadequate for ferryshaft or creasia. Lowland curbs also have a semi-opposable thumb, and they do build things (traps everyone knows about, but also other things). It is not inconceivable that they might build something like a boat or temporary floating structure. It's not impossible to survive in the open during a volonto. The risks would be drowning, getting sucked up by a tornado, or being hit with flying debris. There are also weirder risks, like getting fatally injured by a shark in the middle the plain or stung by a jelly fish. Since it is a magical storm, one might also fall through a randomly opening other way. :)

[robinsonprojection]

Sneak peeks for the next projects I'm doing 👍

[shuttlecarrier]

I need to hire someone to dangle an anvil over me and it gets dropped on my head if I add more airplane-adjacent worldbuilding to my world instead of doing what I'm supposed to do. like writing about the actual story.

[wendykw]

SciShow explains how Hurricane Hunters do their job

I reblogged a tumblr post about NOAA earlier today. The video from YouTube underscores how important Hurricane Hunters are, and it shares data about how dangerous their mission is. It's 10 minutes long, and it's time well spent. Project 2025 wants to outsource or privatize weather prediction. How anyone thinks that's a good idea, I can't comprehend.

[atak-achrativ]

not me making things up again