Hermine is no longer with us but is certainly in the running for legendary social media status. The storm was tracked from the Atlantic Ocean as Invest 99L to landfalling Hurricane Hermine in the panhandle of Florida. Landfall was not the end of Hermine. The storm was downgraded to a Tropical Storm and eventually became a “post tropical cyclone.” Dennis Mersereau wrote an excellent piece in Forbes on this transition . Hermine, similar to Sandy a few years ago, transitioned from a “tropical” system deriving its energy from latent heat exchanges associated with evaporation of warm ocean water/condensation in thunderstorms to a storm system deriving most of its energy from air mass differences (it has fronts). On Tuesday September 6th the National Hurricane Center tweeted

All coastal tropical storm warnings discontinued for #Hermine. Last NHC advisory issued.

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