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- Category 5 Hurricane Dorian slams into the Northern Bahamas RT =23 min
Storm Chaser Jim Edds travels to Elbow Cay, Bahamas to document one of the rarest sights on the planet - a top tier Cat 5 Blue Sky Eye.
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Thunder Dreams
Lightless Dawn
Ambiment
I feel You
Heartbreaking
Gymnopedie No 1
I feel you.
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I came expecting clickbait, and left completely satisfied by the way you documented the storm. Bravo, stay safe.
thank you!
Yea everyone in 2023 loves to clickbait, this was a great vid!
Cant agree more
By the profile name you can immediately tell this isn’t some compilation clickbait
When it comes to Jim Edds there is no clickbait you get the real deal and professionalism a true Storm Chaser.
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
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!!!
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.
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
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
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 !
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
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?
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.
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.
Great video. Seems like TH-cam 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!
*****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
I don’t know how you have only 70,000 subscribers… one of the best TH-camrs meteorologists ever. You don’t get this quality of content even on mainstream television
You're so kind. Thanks for watching.
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
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
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.
@@bluegold21 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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
I’ve always been so fascinated by extreme weather ever since I was a child. So amazing seeing the actual eye of a cat 5 hurricane! I’ve only experienced an eye of a hurricane once and that was hurricane Bob. Nowhere near as extreme as Dorian, but it was just amazing to see how calm it got within the eye.
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
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!
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.
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 :)
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 🤬
Just casually standing outside during a category 5 storm. what an absolute mad lad.
This is every hurricane chasers dream. That eye was perfect.
Thank you so much
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 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.
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...
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
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!
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.
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.....
It's fortunate you didn't get hurt. That was a monster storm. The damge is unbelievable...
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 blue sky inside of the eye is truly surreal. you can even see the storm spinning
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Not many people on this flight, I wonder why
Lmao 😂
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.
That eye was a near-perfect circle. Truly one of the most intense cyclones in history.
Thanks for watching everyone! Sorry I can't respond to all the comments, they are coming in fast!
That's some scary sh u went through bro can't believe you were standing outside lol
I've probably watched this video a dozen times now. Simply amazing!
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.
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.
Are you immortal? Wherever there is something dangerous you're present 🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️
we call that storm chasing
@@JimEdds god bless
Amazing shots. It’s crazy how there’s 2 different worlds inside the same storm. Crazy destruction and then a deceptive, peaceful calm.
Weather is fascinating
Amazing footage. I hope those dogs made it through the storm okay, and were evacuated afterwards. 🤞
Those men have nerves of steel and caught incredible footage with great narration and music choice. Awesome work!
thank you.
Let's take a moment and appreciate the dock builders that built that dock. Cat 5 and it hardly looked different. Impressive.
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.
The eye is like an intermission to one of God's shows.
15:08 Both mesmerizing and scary at the same time. And the storm is only half over.
With the right sharpie, that almost could have hit Alabama.
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.
The eye of a hurricane is terrifying and beautiful, I kinda want to experience it someday
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.
This video is fantastic and you sir have balls of steel to be casually hanging out during weather like that
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.
I can imagine the yelp review: "Hotel was trashed, no electricity, had to drink rain water, room service was subpar, and it was windy."
you made me laugh . . . good to see some humor on the teletype every now and then. Thanks for watching.
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!
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 TH-cam algorithm threw this in my face haha.
thanks, and thanks for watching
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.
Jarring the calm before hell breaks loose again. I feel so bad for the people who had to continue to get nailed when it stalled.
Never knew the eye could be that big...great adventure
My dumbass read the title at 3 AM and expected a cat with 5 blue eyes 🥹
hah
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!
This is so wild to see. The odds of being in the center of that eye are slim to none
indeed, very few people have seen a Cat 5 Blue Sky Eye. Even among my kind (storm chasers) you rarely see it. You have to be in a powerful cyclone in the deep tropics. If the eye is 20 miles across you have to be safe in that small 20 miles and that's not doable for most people.
The calm in the middle of the storm
911 mb with the most perfect structure ever and you were right in the eye!!! Incredible!
It feels like those movies with the stadium fight in the sky
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...
That footage of this absolute vicious beast of a hurricane and the spectacular eye was amazing. The fact that it stalled out must've amplified the destruction. I feel for the Bahaians
It's very rare that someone captures footage like you did. Well done.
Thank you.
I never thought about it when a hurricane stalls for days at a time - someone lives where the wall is stationed. Scary stuff
Wow this is incredible shot.
I can’t imagine how scary it was back when people didn’t know a hurricane was coming. Scary enough in modern times. I didn’t imagine that houses would even be standing with a category five. The footage of the eye was fascinating.
that eye was hauntingly beautiful
A friend of mine moved to the Bahamas in 17 and he moved back to Ohio after this hurricane. I followed him on Facebook up until that point and saw the most beautiful sunsets, it was a shame he had to move back but his place was no more. Your life can change in a instant just like the weather.
Be safe out there and God bless.
I really appreciate it when people document things like this. They are rare events and there can always be more documentation.
16:28 true old-head fashion that speaks to your soul "don't go out there."
This video made me realize how terrified I am at the thought of dying to a high speed stray coconut
this is such an unbelievable video
thank you and thanks for watching
WOW!!! Amazing footage.
For anyone wondering, the eye shows up at 12:50
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.
the whole time I was looking at the scene from inside the eye wall, I was thinking, those poor people Just off to the north and south that got the full brunt. Peace for them and their families
That is one impressive stadium effect. Great footage!
thank you and thanks for watching the video
That sudden burst at 9:55 was crazy
My thoughts also. Basically like a shotgun blast of rain.
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
Walking on the flooded dock in those winds with a foot of water takes some balls holy shit