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Amelia Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️
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(she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. Storm chaser and astrophotographer. Chase Archive team member. Cat mom. Oklahoma’s transgender menace. F 💞 ²⁰²⁴⁻¹⁰⁻⁰⁸.🌪️- 18 🌌 - 6

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(4/4) This inward motion may cause the surface low to fill in, and the cyclone would reach a new balance in the absence of other forces. However, if the pressure falls from ascent over the sfc low outpace pressure rises from sfc convergence, Melissa may restrengthen rapidly.
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
(3/4) Think of a figure skater, or a professor holding dumbbells standing on top of a spinning chair. As either one brings their arms in, they spin faster. We may observe a similar effect with Melissa.
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
(2/4) Right now, the pressure gradient force is trying to crush air inwards. Since the centrifugal force is weaker due to relatively slow winds, a net push inwards exists. This will encourage inwards motion and, through the conservation of angular momentum, strengthening of winds.
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I recommend anybody interested in donating uses the official website launched earlier today instead of the links I posted supportjamaica.gov.jm/donateq
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
American Red Cross: redcross.org/donate/donat...

American Friends of Jamaica: theafj.app.neoncrm.com/forms/afj-di...

World Central Kitchen: donate.wck.org/give/499865/...

International Medical Corps: internationalmedicalcorps.org?form=Melissa...
redcross.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
At the time of imaging, it was about magnitude 4.6. It has started to produce something of a dust tail, but it’s much less that C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan/ATLAS) last year and that’s keeping its brightness down. Through my 10x50 binoculars it looked like a faint colorless smudge.
October 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM