Papagolash
@Papagolash
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Trained spotter and storm chaser, BS in Meteorology. Love severe weather, science, space, nature, and Nine Inch Nails. Lets go NY Rangers, NY Mets, NY Giants.
Buffalo, NY
Joined January 2009
look at this beautiful balloon killer
Raptor high-alpha pull-up: Air accelerates sharply ➡️ pressure drops ➡️ vapor forms. 😎 The F-22’s extreme performance secures @usairforce air dominance. 🇺🇸
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12/28/23, OTD 2 yrs ago: SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the OTV-7/USSF-52 mission, the 4th flight of the X-37B spacecraft. This was the 🤯 view from Titusville as the rocket passed in front of the nearly Full Moon.
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Great composite image of the mushroom-shaped cloud that rose above the mountain during the first half-hour of the eruption! This view, looking southeast toward the mountain from near Toledo, 35 miles away, was captured by Rocky Kohlberg.
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Finally, my video: Hurricane MELISSA at Ground Zero. #MELISSA was the most epic chase of my career—and the most intense #hurricane I’ve witnessed. So, I gave it the grand, full-length documentary treatment. I was on the island of #Jamaica for 10 days, and this video brings you
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Looking through the video footage of Hurricane Melissa a bit more closely and it turns out there was some lightning visible even during the daytime over on the left side
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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
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The Sentinel-2 satellite captured this image of Melissa's eye at peak intensity. 10m pixel resolution - one of the best satellite images ever captured of a hurricane of this intensity. Image from 16z this morning.
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Major Hurricane Melissa makes a historic landfall near New Hope, Jamaica.
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Hurricane Melissa continues to intensify right up to landfall, with some of the most prolific lightning bursts you’ll see in a hurricane’s core. I’ve tracked every single Atlantic hurricane since 2015, and Melissa is easily the most insane one yet.
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Last night I used a massive telescope and super short exposures to try and keep as much detail as possible near the comet's Nucleus, and it revealed a series of "jets", likely sublimated water and chunks of rock and dust, streaming off the core.
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A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.
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33 Raptor engines powering the Super Heavy booster off the pad from Starbase
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I've been fortunate enough to witness and film a lot of wild things in my time on this planet. Booster 15's final hover and then plunge into the gulf is easily on the short list. @NASASpaceflight
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