🌀 How a Tropical Cyclone Forms, Strengthens and Weakens: Orbit-to-Eyewall Lab with SST, Shear and Coriolis

Fly from orbit down to the eyewall of a raymarched tropical cyclone and watch the sea-surface temperature (26.5 C threshold), vertical shear, moisture and the Coriolis limit near the equator decide whether it forms, becomes a major hurricane, replaces its eyewall and decays at landfall, with a Holland wind and pressure profile, a Saffir-Simpson readout and a simple storm-surge estimate at a generic coastal town.