Hurricane satellite imagery from the 1980’s-1990’s doesn’t have the scary black color

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Thanks for those pics for reference. The detail in them clearly shows what you're talking about.

The scary black colors on the photos you posted represent

If a weather app had a Lootie layer option for hurricanes, I'd pay for it.

Thanks. Were they measuring temperatures in recent previous decades?

Hurricane Hugo. I remember not going to school for a month. 135mph winds in Mt Pleasant (Charleston) and a 15’ storm surge. Was absolute hell.

A forgotten beast of the 80s with all of the other more recent storms. Charleston has thankfully bounced back stronger than ever.

Mellissa looks like an absolute monster this morning. The Blue Mountains are going to be Jamaican’s worst enemy here. Up to 60” of rain onto that old loose volcanic soil, which is very very prone to land slides/mudslides.

The eastern side of Jamaica will take a decade or more to recover, if it even does. This will , unfortunately, be a mass casualty event. Hopefully some of our assets in the Gulf will turn off from their show of force and provide some humanitarian aid as per normal in these situations. Looks like the USNS Mercy is in Mobile currently?