This is one of the rare moments where you can directly visualize the size of the planet all at once. Seeing the hurricane from space, and then seeing the exact same shape from the ground must feel incredible, to know you're looking at something so huge that it could be seen by somebody standing on the surface of the moon.
I just wanna say I appreciate that this wasn't click-bait, and we actually got to see that really clear eye-view. thanks for taking the risks and getting this footage. I liked everything about this video.
It always just impresses me so much how strong palm trees are like they can stand a 180 MPH hurricane winds but my hardwoods Ash and maples will break off in like 40MPH light thunderstorms winds.... Crazy.
Tree evolution....treevolution! I'm in Michigan so I definitely feel your pain. Not only are trees and limbs coming down, the power will be out for 3-5 days as well.
That’s basically natural selection. Any tree that was too weak couldn’t produce any offspring, so the trees that were more adapted to strong winds like palm trees survive.
It’s also quite simple too though, it’s literally being totally surrounded by violent storms and there’s no way to escape them. They’re coming from one direction or another, no matter what.
I've been in the eye of a Cat 5 as it passed over my house. It's terrifying, because you know it's only half over and it's gonna get a lot worse: everything the first half blew down is gonna get launched in the other direction. The bad damage happens in the second half.
I went through Maria in 2017 and recently Fiona. The differences between a cat 1 and a cat 5 is HUGE. Never got to see the eye stadium effect. Maria's eye dissorganized at landfall. But it was a monster storm. The aftermath is always the worst part, it's like a feeling of surviving the apocalypse
Dorian has to be the most photogenic hurricane I've ever seen. The eye was so pronounced, not only on satellite and radar, but from the ground too, amazing footage Jim!
That’s an oddly perfect looking hurricane. The eye has no breaks in it and is perfectly circular. It’s smooth and round through the whole thing. I watched Ian on radar and it had a lot of wonk and unevenness. I guess everything lined up for it to be beautiful and destructive.
It's literally such category 5 strength that gives the most perfect eye structure. Beautiful en terrible at the same time. The stronger a storm is, the more perfect it's shape is going to be.
i remember as a kid growing up in florida my town had a direct hit once and the false sense of hope you get when the eye goes over is a different kind of nightmare. our power had gone out and the water was rising quickly, the wind was howling and pounding at the door and then suddenly, it's quiet. dead quiet. no birds chirping, no cars humming, just the silent sun, watching you from above. and just as quickly as it begins, it ends, within half an hour or maybe even less i can't remember, it was just as bad. we had no way of knowing what the silence meant until we went outside because the power was out and the radio we had was kind of shitty. could barely make out what anyone was saying on it, so when the eye hit us we thought it was over. but then you look up and see a storm encircling you, and you have such a sense of dread knowing it's only half way from being over.
I'm in Orlando right now and Milton is headed for Florida. Helene destroyed some parts of the Gulf Coast... now Milton is coming our way and I'm scared for everyone on the West Coast. When it reaches the West Coast, it's headed this way. We don't know how strong it'll be... that's the scary part. I can't imagine living on the East or West Coast and taking a direct hit at full force from one of these things. That must have been terrifying for you, especially as a kid.
@artemis2520 I was visiting my grandparents on that west coast, and we literally evacuated just yesterday bc their house is right in the hit path (almost at the center of it). Hurricanes are seriously terrifying...
Great video. Seems like RUclips is starting to recommend it more, I have a feeling this one is going to take off. Hope your buddy was able to fix his boat and glad you guys stayed safe.
I don’t know how you have only 70,000 subscribers… one of the best RUclipsrs meteorologists ever. You don’t get this quality of content even on mainstream television
The scariest thing about being in the eye is before the storm initially starts to hit the winds and noises build up. In the eye it is calm, then you start to hear it coming like a train and it goes from calm to hell in seconds.
Wow, 42K views in the last 48hrs. Thanks everyone and thanks for tapping that "Like" button. YT seems to like the like lol. By the way, Mexico's Hurricane Season has started and in a few weeks it's game on for the US/Caribbean. The Main Development Region MDR is already at August water temps. We might see some more Dorians this season. Be weather prepared. Peace.
Being inside a hurricane's eye, especially the notorious category 5, is so rare. Although it looks cool because of the stadium effect, it's also quite terrifying knowing that ALL around you is the eyewall where the strongest part of the storm is there while your location is calm.
There are only few category 5 hurricanes/typhoons, getting such a footage will definitely help the atmospheric agencies understand even more about hurricanes. Well done Jim and glad you’re all safe!
There are comments like yours that seem to be attempting to dissuade the reader from believing that these storms aren't common. Maybe not in any one location but around the globe Cat 5's are now seen yearly. And a fair proportion do strike land.
@@Ominousheat not dissuade but try to count records of cat5 from the past 100 years. You can count those on your fingers. Also the fact that cat5 do come but we cannot observe it directly unless it does fall in land. Got what I’m trying to point out? Sure we can see them from satellites but to go under directly its path for data gathering is really rare.
Hurricane Dorian was one of the most peculiar storms I’ve ever seen. Aside from its overpowered stats and stalling out, Dorian had a near perfect circular eye. It must have been a surreal experience standing in amidst the eye of the storm. If there was such a rating of Cat 6, Dorian would certainly achieved this super hurricane status.
This had me on my toes the whole time this hurricane was over the Bahamas. Can’t even imagine or feel what that must have been like. Still really shocks me how long it stalled
This is probably the first time I’ve ever sat through a 20+ minute video and didn’t skip or stop before it was done. Incredible filming and capture of such an extreme event.
I can tell just by how well this is curated how passionate you are about what you do. When I saw the thumbnail I wanted to go directly to the eye wall part but I'm very very glad I decided to watch the whole thing, this was a very good video. Thank you for chasing these storms and stay safe in your future endeavors
This is absolutely incredible. Never before have I seen such a high quality video from inside the eye of a hurricane, I didn’t know anyone was brave enough to stay so calm during such a powerful storm. Wonderful video!
Imagine being trapped or just terrified for your life and you hear someone cheerfully laughing to be looking at a cat 5 eye. Definitely had to be one of the coolest experiences ever for someone who just loves these types of storms. But I'm definitely just gonna watch the videos of them XD
Wow. Such an interesting experience. I went through the eye of hurricane Alicia that hit Houston in 1983. The city and the news told us, don't go out in the eye of storm because it'll come back and then you be stuck. My roommates and I were in our mid 20s so what did we do? We went out to see it. Later that afternoon, after the storm, when we had no power, we drove around to see the damage. The city said, stay home, but we drove around and found the Alabama Theater was open with electricity, and air conditioning, so we went to the movie and watched Flashdance. Last I remember, the theater had been converted to a book store. Thanks for sharing this video and your experience.
I have to commend you: wading through storm surge to get footage from the dock of a flooded marina is incredibly brave. Very few people would do that, and I admire your commitment to the video. That being said, please don't feel like you need to do that; we'll still watch without it.
I do mitigate the risks based on my experience. What looks scary to some is not for me but I do have my limits. The storm was not that bad yet and water over the dock was doable. Check out my Hurricane Irene footage from Hopetown from 2022. Thanks for watching.
it's hard to believe when you see it, almost mythical. Many eyes are filled in with clouds so even though the pressure has bottomed out you can't see blue sky.
imagine being a sailor on a big ship back when they were still exploring the world and weathering your way through the storm to see this. what a surreal experience it must have been, this is surreal already. cannot imagine seeing this out in the middle of the sea.
The main issue with Dorian was that the high-pressure system sitting over the Southeastern US was impeding the storm's movement. Dorian at one point was Stationary. A Cat 5 Hurricane that didn't move for hours.
I'm in my 60s now but when I was a kid in Rhode Island, my dad brought us outside when the eye of a hurricane passed over our house. It was weird...blue sky, no wind. Then it started all over again. I couldn't appreciate it as much back then though.
I have experienced being in the eye a few times. Quite surreal to experience a sunshine break before getting f***ed again. The other way. Because the winds would be coming from the other direction.
It really goes to show you just how well many of those buildings were constructed, given how many were still standing. Most houses on the mainland get flattened by winds like that, considering they’re equivalent to EF4 tornado winds. Gotta give the folks that build on those islands some big credit.
@@esoessify the winds around a hurricane are obviously different, but that doesn't mean the winds are limited; where they were at winds at that direct area of landfall were at about 184 mph, with est. calc. gusts of over 200 mph.
It's very interesting to see the before and after shots. The trees just being entirely stripped of all their foliage and the green landscape turning brown is just insane to see.
I flew relief missions from Homestead AFB and Grand Bahama with the US Army after this hit, looked like a warzone. Rescued a lot of people and delivered literally tons of supplies. Great mission.
I'll never forget... 2:12 NOAA had it going directly over my house as a major hurricane and not a single person in my family called. That day made me realize I'm on my own, nowadays I like it that way.
@12:50, eerie, beautiful, calm at the same time. Scary the destruction those clouds are holding below yet weird to see clear blue sky knowing what's coming next.
This man defies laws. How are you walking around? And how in hell did you get perfectly, still video while all hell is breaking loose all around you?? Best storm video I’ve ever seen, FR!
I lug around a big tripod for the stable shots then try and hold to gopro against something if possible but more and more cams come with some sort of image stabalizing feature. So one of these days I won't have to carry and tripod with me everywhere-it's heavy. Thanks for watching !
@@JimEdds Bravo Jim! incredible footage. Also, the fact that, you were so calm through it all is just mind blowing. Stay safe, thank you for sharing and I look forward to more content. 🙏
Yeah I was suprised none of them were in the Bahamas. Everybody bit on Florida but I knew it wasn't going to happen the night before I left for Miami. I'd rather go to the Bahamas or the Caribbean anyway if it's going to skirt the Outer Banks.
The clips before the storm are honestly so eerie, because this is such a serene tropical getaway. Its hard to wrap my head around the hell that was unleashed on that island just 24 hours later as one of the strongest landfalling hurricanes ever recorded came onshore. Dorian was an absolute beast, and this footage is simply incredible. Thanks for being there to document it!
12:49 you can see the donut whole of the eye wall of the hurricane. How coolios. I have autism and I love weather. Wether is my special interest. I don't follow much hurricane but tornadoes because they spin. I love wearing because of so much things spins.
That's the most terrifying first hand footage of a Hurricane I think I've ever seen. You gotta be one brave soul to knowingly put yourself dead center in the path of a storm like that.... Also, props given to the structural engineers. The fact that the structure you hid in didn't turn into splinters in the middle of 180mph winds speaks volumes to our species' ability to adapt to extreme environments such as this.....
[16:10] "Blowing too hard to go out, way too dangerous." *immediately pans to Jim opening the door to the outside* Idk why but this part was hilarious to me 😂
Man this is blowing my mind. It's one of those rare videos where we got what was promised and much more besides. Stay safe, God bless you and your family 🙏
Your level of excitement being in a Cat 5 eye was great. The footage you took and the commentary was awesome, thank you for sharing this! It felt like I was there with you.
I remember when hurricane Charlie hit Orlando in 2004 the eye passed right over my house. I was a kid at the time and couldnt believe that I could see STARS in the middle of all that chaos
This is an amazing video! As a child I experienced the eye of hurricane Bob… early to mid 90’s I believe. I remember going out and running around in the sun. Even as a child who didn’t understand the magnitude of what it was, I knew it was something special. The sight of the wall clouds was awe-inspiring. This is helping me remember that sight and feeling! Thank you for sharing the footage!
I was 16 in fall river mass when the eye of bob came over, then the wind picked up quickly from the opposite direction... The jet stream usually picks them up and there pretty much speeding by the time they get up here in the northeast... Haven't had a direct hit since Bob in 91.. it's always something I wanted to experience with my young son.... I'm fascinated by these things...
Much respect to all my fellow storm chasers. I'm a hurricane hunter myself. I did Hurricane Michael in Tyndall AFB in 2018. That one was also a cat 5 with max winds of 160mph. It was a doozy but also a fast moving storm. Dorian, however, was worse, way worse. It was extremely powerful and very slow moving. If my memory serves correctly, I think it was stationary at one point over one of the Bahama Islands. Anyways, I will never forget that stadium effect of Michael's eye. Truly an incredible sight to behold.
This Jim guy is EXACTLY the type of dude I would love to sit and have a few beers with. You got a subscriber out of me, just on that picture of the empty seats on the way to Marsh Harbor.
I have only experienced one true eye of a major hurricane sept 12th 1979 Fredric on the Alabama coast...From wind to the snapping of pine trees all around my house...Scariest night of my life....bar none....
This was seriously well documented and put together Jim. Hate to see the destruction but watching mother nature at work is fascinating. I'm glad the RUclips algorithm threw this in my face haha.
I love how within a hurricane, crap gets seriously rough the deeper you’re in it and then there’s that one peaceful circle that is basically that one little positive spec.
I have never experienced a storm like this. But being in the eye must be terrifying, knowing that the storm will come back just as bad as it was before.
Dorian made Irene look like a minor squall. All the efforts you made to get this footage really paid off. It’s hard to even fathom the power of such storms or the extent of the devastation they leave in their wake without actually being there, just like you were. You easily deserve 10x the subscribers you have now with content like this! Subbed, & will tune in for future videos!
As someone who lives in NY who experienced Irene…..Irene was honestly a small tropical storm that didn’t cause too much damage well at least where I live on Long Island (I can’t say for everyone else though) however, I was also in middle school when Irene happened…..so I was like 11-12, and as a young teen and a little kid….any thunderstorm that’s more severe, like a tropical storm or tropical depression…..always scared me because back then I only knew of thunderstorms. However Sandy….she pulled up on the northeast and said “fuck you bitches” to all of us.
@@PEWannabee You missed: Hurricane Alicia (1983) - Name retired Tropical Storm Allison (2001) - It is the only tropical storm to have its name retired. Hurricane Ike (2008) - Name retired As Jim Edds said, Hurricane Harvey hit slightly west of Houston (It destroyed Rock Port), but Houston got a lot of its rains, and it killed 103 people.
All vortices theoretically have a point in their center where pressure reaches a minimum and wind velocity falls to zero. Extremely large tornadoes also have eyes, and there are reports of people leaving their shelter thinking the tornado has passed, only to be hit by 200 mile per hour winds as the eye passes.
If I ever get to retirement, I hope to travel and document things as you do. Very inspiring and excellent work you do. Thank you for uploading and sharing.
This is one of the rare moments where you can directly visualize the size of the planet all at once. Seeing the hurricane from space, and then seeing the exact same shape from the ground must feel incredible, to know you're looking at something so huge that it could be seen by somebody standing on the surface of the moon.
Well said
I just wanna say I appreciate that this wasn't click-bait, and we actually got to see that really clear eye-view. thanks for taking the risks and getting this footage. I liked everything about this video.
Thank you BP. This was a very rare cat 5 blue sky eye only seen from a hurricane hunter aircraft previously. Thanks for watching.
Well done!!!
the masculine urge to stand outside during a storm
here before this blows up
i stood outside during hurricane irma in florida a few years back with my uncle and we saw our palm trees bending from the wind, it was sick
Its actually the human ego to think we're invulnerable to everything.
We do it for the experience.
Its fun
Thanks for watching eveyone btw this is the lowest pressure recorded in a cyclone by a storm chaser on land to this day.
Hope John was able to salvage his boat
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WOW very interesting fact. I guess I never thought about it.
How's John's boat?
That's awesome ur brave. I went through charley but Dorian was a monster.
It always just impresses me so much how strong palm trees are like they can stand a 180 MPH hurricane winds but my hardwoods Ash and maples will break off in like 40MPH light thunderstorms winds.... Crazy.
Tree evolution....treevolution!
I'm in Michigan so I definitely feel your pain. Not only are trees and limbs coming down, the power will be out for 3-5 days as well.
Palm trees are sponge like inside. That gives them an amazing ability to flex in the wind. Hard to cut with a chainsaw even.
Harder objects tend to snap if they are bent, but softer objects are more elastic and can bend alot without snapping
@@JimEddsthanks for this
That’s basically natural selection. Any tree that was too weak couldn’t produce any offspring, so the trees that were more adapted to strong winds like palm trees survive.
There’s some weird existential dread seeing a clear blue sky being circled by a wall of extremely harsh storm winds
Storms*
100% agreed though.
It’s also quite simple too though, it’s literally being totally surrounded by violent storms and there’s no way to escape them. They’re coming from one direction or another, no matter what.
Beauty in destruction
Being inside the center of such an incomprehensively massive and powerful storm must be truely an incredible experience
The best hurricane footage of a Cat5 eye wall. Such a beautiful sight. So calm no wind and sunny in the middle of a monster. Nature is amazing
Yeah…I want to be there the rest of my life !
Thanks everyone for watching the Dorian Video. Another monster coming late tomorrow just south of me.
GOOD LUCK JIM!
Yup milton is in the top 20 worst storms now
Just happened like 7 hours ago
back to back😮
Praying for you ❤️
Jesus Christ, Jim. Did you stay through Dorian for fun?
I've been in the eye of a Cat 5 as it passed over my house. It's terrifying, because you know it's only half over and it's gonna get a lot worse: everything the first half blew down is gonna get launched in the other direction. The bad damage happens in the second half.
I went through Maria in 2017 and recently Fiona. The differences between a cat 1 and a cat 5 is HUGE. Never got to see the eye stadium effect. Maria's eye dissorganized at landfall. But it was a monster storm. The aftermath is always the worst part, it's like a feeling of surviving the apocalypse
Maria was brutal in Puerto Rico. So much damage there.
I lived maria too, but I kind of liked how puerto rico came together and got out of that problem
Dorian has to be the most photogenic hurricane I've ever seen. The eye was so pronounced, not only on satellite and radar, but from the ground too, amazing footage Jim!
Thanks and thanks for watching the video
In my opinion hurricane Isabel is a little more photogenic. The pinwheel eye and annular shape just makes it look so cool
That’s an oddly perfect looking hurricane. The eye has no breaks in it and is perfectly circular. It’s smooth and round through the whole thing. I watched Ian on radar and it had a lot of wonk and unevenness. I guess everything lined up for it to be beautiful and destructive.
It's literally such category 5 strength that gives the most perfect eye structure. Beautiful en terrible at the same time. The stronger a storm is, the more perfect it's shape is going to be.
i remember as a kid growing up in florida my town had a direct hit once and the false sense of hope you get when the eye goes over is a different kind of nightmare. our power had gone out and the water was rising quickly, the wind was howling and pounding at the door and then suddenly, it's quiet. dead quiet. no birds chirping, no cars humming, just the silent sun, watching you from above. and just as quickly as it begins, it ends, within half an hour or maybe even less i can't remember, it was just as bad. we had no way of knowing what the silence meant until we went outside because the power was out and the radio we had was kind of shitty. could barely make out what anyone was saying on it, so when the eye hit us we thought it was over. but then you look up and see a storm encircling you, and you have such a sense of dread knowing it's only half way from being over.
Thanks for sharing, it sounds amazing to be able to be in the eye and look up, but hurricanes are nooooo joke..
I'm in Orlando right now and Milton is headed for Florida. Helene destroyed some parts of the Gulf Coast... now Milton is coming our way and I'm scared for everyone on the West Coast. When it reaches the West Coast, it's headed this way. We don't know how strong it'll be... that's the scary part. I can't imagine living on the East or West Coast and taking a direct hit at full force from one of these things. That must have been terrifying for you, especially as a kid.
@artemis2520 I was visiting my grandparents on that west coast, and we literally evacuated just yesterday bc their house is right in the hit path (almost at the center of it). Hurricanes are seriously terrifying...
Great video. Seems like RUclips is starting to recommend it more, I have a feeling this one is going to take off. Hope your buddy was able to fix his boat and glad you guys stayed safe.
it's had a bit of a run the past week and I hope you're right. Thanks for watching.
The great thumbnail and title are getting clicks!
I don’t know how you have only 70,000 subscribers… one of the best RUclipsrs meteorologists ever. You don’t get this quality of content even on mainstream television
You're so kind. Thanks for watching.
The scariest thing about being in the eye is before the storm initially starts to hit the winds and noises build up. In the eye it is calm, then you start to hear it coming like a train and it goes from calm to hell in seconds.
That second part of the storm is usually a lot worse.
Wow, 42K views in the last 48hrs. Thanks everyone and thanks for tapping that "Like" button. YT seems to like the like lol. By the way, Mexico's Hurricane Season has started and in a few weeks it's game on for the US/Caribbean. The Main Development Region MDR is already at August water temps. We might see some more Dorians this season. Be weather prepared. Peace.
Being inside a hurricane's eye, especially the notorious category 5, is so rare. Although it looks cool because of the stadium effect, it's also quite terrifying knowing that ALL around you is the eyewall where the strongest part of the storm is there while your location is calm.
There are only few category 5 hurricanes/typhoons, getting such a footage will definitely help the atmospheric agencies understand even more about hurricanes. Well done Jim and glad you’re all safe!
Thanks Zeria and thanks for watching.
There are comments like yours that seem to be attempting to dissuade the reader from believing that these storms aren't common. Maybe not in any one location but around the globe Cat 5's are now seen yearly. And a fair proportion do strike land.
@@Ominousheat not dissuade but try to count records of cat5 from the past 100 years. You can count those on your fingers. Also the fact that cat5 do come but we cannot observe it directly unless it does fall in land. Got what I’m trying to point out? Sure we can see them from satellites but to go under directly its path for data gathering is really rare.
This is one of the most impressive weather videos I have ever seen. Really well done Sir. Glad you’re okay.
thank you, took a while to edit but it's nice to see the positive feedback. Dorian was a very powerful storm probably the strongest wind I've been in.
Hurricane Dorian was one of the most peculiar storms I’ve ever seen. Aside from its overpowered stats and stalling out, Dorian had a near perfect circular eye. It must have been a surreal experience standing in amidst the eye of the storm. If there was such a rating of Cat 6, Dorian would certainly achieved this super hurricane status.
This had me on my toes the whole time this hurricane was over the Bahamas. Can’t even imagine or feel what that must have been like. Still really shocks me how long it stalled
This is probably the first time I’ve ever sat through a 20+ minute video and didn’t skip or stop before it was done. Incredible filming and capture of such an extreme event.
Thanks for watching Anthony & glad you stayed with it :)
I can tell just by how well this is curated how passionate you are about what you do. When I saw the thumbnail I wanted to go directly to the eye wall part but I'm very very glad I decided to watch the whole thing, this was a very good video. Thank you for chasing these storms and stay safe in your future endeavors
thank you and thanks for watching!
This is every hurricane chasers dream. That eye was perfect.
Thank you so much
*****Thanks for watching everyone the video is really taking off !*****
that is one amazing photo of the eye wall you captured!
This video was amazing. You did a phenomenal job.
I can see myself in the future coming back to this video for years, it is amazing.
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The production quality on this video is amazing
It sucks im seeing this because of hurricane Milton but this video was incredible thank you took guts
Here witchu bro lol
Good luck with that monster
The hurricane Milton I saw it on the radar on my phone-iPad and imagine first one hurricane and after 2/4 days a new hurricane Milton
This is absolutely incredible. Never before have I seen such a high quality video from inside the eye of a hurricane, I didn’t know anyone was brave enough to stay so calm during such a powerful storm. Wonderful video!
I was in the eye of Milton in Sarasota, it was crazy how calm it was. What an experience.
Being in the eye of a storm like that is very surreal. I remember being inside the eye of Charlie... calm and ominous
it was howling winds and then it stopped. when it started back up again it sounded like a whistle while I was trying to sleep
Imagine being trapped or just terrified for your life and you hear someone cheerfully laughing to be looking at a cat 5 eye. Definitely had to be one of the coolest experiences ever for someone who just loves these types of storms. But I'm definitely just gonna watch the videos of them XD
The shots you got of the eye’s edges are stunning. Amazing how something so serene can be in the center of something else so horrifying
this might be the most stunning footage ever, not an even a mil views are enough for this
That's right !!!
This is very likely the best hurricane eye footage ever taken!
Wow. Such an interesting experience. I went through the eye of hurricane Alicia that hit Houston in 1983. The city and the news told us, don't go out in the eye of storm because it'll come back and then you be stuck. My roommates and I were in our mid 20s so what did we do? We went out to see it. Later that afternoon, after the storm, when we had no power, we drove around to see the damage. The city said, stay home, but we drove around and found the Alabama Theater was open with electricity, and air conditioning, so we went to the movie and watched Flashdance. Last I remember, the theater had been converted to a book store. Thanks for sharing this video and your experience.
I have to commend you: wading through storm surge to get footage from the dock of a flooded marina is incredibly brave. Very few people would do that, and I admire your commitment to the video. That being said, please don't feel like you need to do that; we'll still watch without it.
I do mitigate the risks based on my experience. What looks scary to some is not for me but I do have my limits. The storm was not that bad yet and water over the dock was doable. Check out my Hurricane Irene footage from Hopetown from 2022. Thanks for watching.
@@JimEdds How did you not get swept away when it was at almost waist high?? I'd imagine the current would feel like a gushing river
The calmness of the eye is one of the most fascinating things in weather
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"It's blowing too hard to go out, way too dangerous."
* immediately cuts to partner opening the door and looking outside* 😂
Catching the eye like that looks breathtaking, even on video.
it's hard to believe when you see it, almost mythical. Many eyes are filled in with clouds so even though the pressure has bottomed out you can't see blue sky.
It’s gotta be one of the most surreal things to experience. To quite literally be in the middle of a hurricane is insane.
then you know the second half is coming.
imagine being a sailor on a big ship back when they were still exploring the world and weathering your way through the storm to see this. what a surreal experience it must have been, this is surreal already. cannot imagine seeing this out in the middle of the sea.
If you've ever seen The Perfect Storm flick...
@@Cycology_Major That part where the sun temporarily comes out still haunts me. Like it was a foreboding, and the fishermen knew it.
They would not have lived to tell the tale.
The main issue with Dorian was that the high-pressure system sitting over the Southeastern US was impeding the storm's movement. Dorian at one point was Stationary. A Cat 5 Hurricane that didn't move for hours.
no i wasnt
@@dorianward6685yes you were 🤬
I'm in my 60s now but when I was a kid in Rhode Island, my dad brought us outside when the eye of a hurricane passed over our house. It was weird...blue sky, no wind. Then it started all over again. I couldn't appreciate it as much back then though.
It always amazes me how animals find a way to stay safe. Says a lot about how fine tuned they are to nature.
Maybe. Ya only notice the survivors. Those that were killed either got swept away, or buried under the debris.
This video randomly stumbled upon my yt homepage after the hurricane Milton
Me to
I have experienced being in the eye a few times. Quite surreal to experience a sunshine break before getting f***ed again. The other way. Because the winds would be coming from the other direction.
I was there. When you are in the eye all you can think about is that you are about to go thru it all again.
Damn this is sweet. I’ve always wanted to see what it looked like inside the eye of a cat 5. Thank you for sharing this. Valuable stuff.
It really goes to show you just how well many of those buildings were constructed, given how many were still standing. Most houses on the mainland get flattened by winds like that, considering they’re equivalent to EF4 tornado winds. Gotta give the folks that build on those islands some big credit.
Different types of wind, also the wind speed varies greatly across the huricane. I doubt right there experienced 180 mph
@@esoessify the winds around a hurricane are obviously different, but that doesn't mean the winds are limited; where they were at winds at that direct area of landfall were at about 184 mph, with est. calc. gusts of over 200 mph.
It's fortunate you didn't get hurt. That was a monster storm. The damge is unbelievable...
It's very interesting to see the before and after shots. The trees just being entirely stripped of all their foliage and the green landscape turning brown is just insane to see.
and the green does come back, nature is very resilient
The masculine urge to grow in size till the hurricane is proportionally the size of a bagel and then take a bite out of the flat water-flavored bagel.
This is the randomest comment I've seen in quite a while.
Oddly specific
you sound like you speak from experience...
I flew relief missions from Homestead AFB and Grand Bahama with the US Army after this hit, looked like a warzone. Rescued a lot of people and delivered literally tons of supplies. Great mission.
that's awesome. I love choppers.
This is a new insight for me. Thank you for the video!
I'll never forget... 2:12 NOAA had it going directly over my house as a major hurricane and not a single person in my family called. That day made me realize I'm on my own, nowadays I like it that way.
I’m so sorry
@12:50, eerie, beautiful, calm at the same time. Scary the destruction those clouds are holding below yet weird to see clear blue sky knowing what's coming next.
Those men have nerves of steel and caught incredible footage with great narration and music choice. Awesome work!
thank you.
This man defies laws. How are you walking around? And how in hell did you get perfectly, still video while all hell is breaking loose all around you?? Best storm video I’ve ever seen, FR!
I lug around a big tripod for the stable shots then try and hold to gopro against something if possible but more and more cams come with some sort of image stabalizing feature. So one of these days I won't have to carry and tripod with me everywhere-it's heavy. Thanks for watching !
@@JimEdds Bravo Jim! incredible footage. Also, the fact that, you were so calm through it all is just mind blowing. Stay safe, thank you for sharing and I look forward to more content. 🙏
Thanks, working on another good one Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys.
It's very rare that someone captures footage like you did. Well done.
Thank you.
Tornado chasers are crazy, but you're something else Jim.
Yeah I was suprised none of them were in the Bahamas. Everybody bit on Florida but I knew it wasn't going to happen the night before I left for Miami. I'd rather go to the Bahamas or the Caribbean anyway if it's going to skirt the Outer Banks.
The clips before the storm are honestly so eerie, because this is such a serene tropical getaway. Its hard to wrap my head around the hell that was unleashed on that island just 24 hours later as one of the strongest landfalling hurricanes ever recorded came onshore. Dorian was an absolute beast, and this footage is simply incredible. Thanks for being there to document it!
Totally gangster being in the eye of a hurricane. That's gotta be a once in a lifetime event.
I've been in 2, nothing like that but it's definitely an awesome experience.
The fact he remains so calm through the whole ordeal makes me scared to anger this man. Dude could probably scare popcorn ready with just a glance
12:49 you can see the donut whole of the eye wall of the hurricane. How coolios. I have autism and I love weather. Wether is my special interest. I don't follow much hurricane but tornadoes because they spin. I love wearing because of so much things spins.
Can you share some of your favorite tornado videos? I'd love to see them!
12:50 The HOLY GRAIL of hurricane storm chasers...THE EYE OF THE STORM & its stadium effect.
Indeed, I dreamed of a shot like that. Next up is the sub 900 mb eye recording on a calibrated barometer
That's the most terrifying first hand footage of a Hurricane I think I've ever seen. You gotta be one brave soul to knowingly put yourself dead center in the path of a storm like that.... Also, props given to the structural engineers. The fact that the structure you hid in didn't turn into splinters in the middle of 180mph winds speaks volumes to our species' ability to adapt to extreme environments such as this.....
In my opinion, these hurricanes with the blue eye sky's are the real scary storms.. unbelievable power behind these storms.
The blue sky eye storms are brutal afterward. So much destruction but like the bare trees they turn green again with time.
Let's take a moment and appreciate the dock builders that built that dock. Cat 5 and it hardly looked different. Impressive.
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"Blowing too hard to go out, way too dangerous."
*immediately pans to Jim opening the door to the outside*
Idk why but this part was hilarious to me 😂
That hurricane "eye" footage is phenomenal. Great video. Thank you.
That footage was absolutely the real deal. That was 100% the eye and eye wall of Dorian. No misleading or editing trickery involved.
@@YogSoththis wss seen all over that island and this has happened pretty often, it's called the stadium effect
Man this is blowing my mind. It's one of those rare videos where we got what was promised and much more besides. Stay safe, God bless you and your family 🙏
thank you very much. I read your comment to the wife. A Blue Sky Eye is rare from the ground. It's found in very strong Cyclones. All the best to you.
the blue sky inside of the eye is truly surreal. you can even see the storm spinning
Your level of excitement being in a Cat 5 eye was great. The footage you took and the commentary was awesome, thank you for sharing this! It felt like I was there with you.
I remember when hurricane Charlie hit Orlando in 2004 the eye passed right over my house. I was a kid at the time and couldnt believe that I could see STARS in the middle of all that chaos
This is an amazing video! As a child I experienced the eye of hurricane Bob… early to mid 90’s I believe. I remember going out and running around in the sun. Even as a child who didn’t understand the magnitude of what it was, I knew it was something special. The sight of the wall clouds was awe-inspiring. This is helping me remember that sight and feeling! Thank you for sharing the footage!
I was 16 in fall river mass when the eye of bob came over, then the wind picked up quickly from the opposite direction... The jet stream usually picks them up and there pretty much speeding by the time they get up here in the northeast... Haven't had a direct hit since Bob in 91.. it's always something I wanted to experience with my young son.... I'm fascinated by these things...
Much respect to all my fellow storm chasers. I'm a hurricane hunter myself. I did Hurricane Michael in Tyndall AFB in 2018. That one was also a cat 5 with max winds of 160mph. It was a doozy but also a fast moving storm. Dorian, however, was worse, way worse. It was extremely powerful and very slow moving. If my memory serves correctly, I think it was stationary at one point over one of the Bahama Islands. Anyways, I will never forget that stadium effect of Michael's eye. Truly an incredible sight to behold.
Great accout of the events of Dorian. Your production is a piece of history.
Thank you Storrhouse and thanks for watching. Love the Bahamas, it's absolutely beautiful.
Nature shrugs when a hurricane passes by, but all of our man-made stuff gets wiped out. Great video, and well told!
Thanks for watching.
That is one impressive stadium effect. Great footage!
thank you and thanks for watching the video
This Jim guy is EXACTLY the type of dude I would love to sit and have a few beers with. You got a subscriber out of me, just on that picture of the empty seats on the way to Marsh Harbor.
very cool Soul Man, thanks for subscribing!
I have only experienced one true eye of a major hurricane sept 12th 1979 Fredric on the Alabama coast...From wind to the snapping of pine trees all around my house...Scariest night of my life....bar none....
Snapping pine trees like matchsticks indicate it was probably stronger than reported.
This video is fantastic and you sir have balls of steel to be casually hanging out during weather like that
This was seriously well documented and put together Jim. Hate to see the destruction but watching mother nature at work is fascinating. I'm glad the RUclips algorithm threw this in my face haha.
thanks, and thanks for watching
911 mb with the most perfect structure ever and you were right in the eye!!! Incredible!
I love how within a hurricane, crap gets seriously rough the deeper you’re in it and then there’s that one peaceful circle that is basically that one little positive spec.
The visible change in the wind speed at 9:56 is actually insane
I can't imagine looking up, realizing im in the eye of the storm, and realizing it's only half done
Just casually standing outside during a category 5 storm. what an absolute mad lad.
Standing in a hurricanes eye is eerie. I was in Hurricane Wilma and I have no need to experience that again.
185 mph winds and it basically parked on them for 24 hours. Must have been absolutely horrific.
I have never experienced a storm like this. But being in the eye must be terrifying, knowing that the storm will come back just as bad as it was before.
Dorian made Irene look like a minor squall. All the efforts you made to get this footage really paid off. It’s hard to even fathom the power of such storms or the extent of the devastation they leave in their wake without actually being there, just like you were.
You easily deserve 10x the subscribers you have now with content like this! Subbed, & will tune in for future videos!
Thanks George & Ruth, I wish I had 10x the subs :) Maybe one of these days. Thanks for watching and commenting, always enjoy reading the comments :)
As someone who lives in NY who experienced Irene…..Irene was honestly a small tropical storm that didn’t cause too much damage well at least where I live on Long Island (I can’t say for everyone else though) however, I was also in middle school when Irene happened…..so I was like 11-12, and as a young teen and a little kid….any thunderstorm that’s more severe, like a tropical storm or tropical depression…..always scared me because back then I only knew of thunderstorms. However Sandy….she pulled up on the northeast and said “fuck you bitches” to all of us.
As someone who's lived in the Houston area his whole life, I've seen my fair share of hurricsne eyes, and they're always surreal and unnerving.
I've been living Houston since 2012. I haven't seen one. 😂. what did I miss ?
you missed Harvey's winds but you got the rain (flooding). And recently wow, that wind storm that took out the high rise windows
@@PEWannabee You missed:
Hurricane Alicia (1983) - Name retired
Tropical Storm Allison (2001) - It is the only tropical storm to have its name retired.
Hurricane Ike (2008) - Name retired
As Jim Edds said, Hurricane Harvey hit slightly west of Houston (It destroyed Rock Port), but Houston got a lot of its rains, and it killed 103 people.
Storm chasers are made of something else, man.
Having gone thru hurricanes Katrina & Ida, there is nothing quite as eerie as being in the eye of a largely destructive hurricane.
8:01 let me go check on a boat while walking on a pier that is submerged underneath the water while walking in hurricane winds. Great idea sir
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I would go back to check on it if it was mine.
I really appreciate it when people document things like this. They are rare events and there can always be more documentation.
All vortices theoretically have a point in their center where pressure reaches a minimum and wind velocity falls to zero. Extremely large tornadoes also have eyes, and there are reports of people leaving their shelter thinking the tornado has passed, only to be hit by 200 mile per hour winds as the eye passes.
Wow this is incredible shot.
If I ever get to retirement, I hope to travel and document things as you do. Very inspiring and excellent work you do. Thank you for uploading and sharing.
it's much easier with the data on the internet these days, I look forward to seeing you out there after retirement. Thanks for watching.
Thank your for showing the real force of a cat 5 and its eyewall .amazing amazing stuff that fasinates me...thanks again guys