Posted on 09/08/2017 3:14:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hurricane Jose has now become an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, threatening Caribbean islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma.
Jose now has top sustained winds of 150 mph as it moves toward the northern Leeward Islands at a speedy 18 mph.
A tropical storm watch has been issued for St. Thomas and St. John.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Good Lord.
There are photos of the damage already incurred by Irma at the following link in a slideshow at the bottom of the page:
Curious... a storm the size of Irma should’ve pulled out all the “energy” from the area for a few weeks (based upon the current “science” of how hurricanes work)
Me thinks the theories are wrong...
And the hits just keep coming.
Forecasts for ten years showed we were to get 7-12 of these a year.
This is nothing in comparison.
“Forecasts for ten years showed we were to get 7-12 of these a year.”
Forecast 10 years ago said the same ting and we got nothing.
Latest prediction I heard was that the storm would turn and go out to sea. Whew!
FOX’ Shep said a bit ago Jose will be nothing.
Consider the source.
I think we need to do what the left does to give them strokes.
All these hurricanes doenmthere is because of the communist Castro regime in Cuba.
I mean the left is blaming Trump and hes only been around less than 8 months. We hav ehad hurricanes down there forever, it seems more logical to blame it on Fidel and his brother.
Some long range forecasts show Jose looping around in the Atlantic and taking another try at FL and the Keys.
I believe it was dirtboy who posted that graphic on an Irma thread.
Jose blew the whole street into my yard at 200 mph last week for the umpteenth time. Cops came and protected Jose.
Curious... a storm the size of Irma should’ve pulled out all the “energy” from the area for a few weeks (based upon the current “science” of how hurricanes work)
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Not sure how this theory holds up in the peak hurricane season when there is more than enough heat to go around.
Not necessarily. It's been trending west for a couple of days, and if ends up just offshore on the west side of Florida, that's the worst-case scenario for Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater, Sarasota, and other towns on the west coast because of the storm surge, which is what causes most of the damage. The winds of a hurricane are strongest in the northwest quadrant (I don't know why.)
Oh. When you wrote “the storm” I thought you meant Irma. Yeah, it looks like Jose will miss the U.S. to the east.
Actually the worst case was having to storm go slightly west of the center of the peninsula, the East coast gets the “dirty side” and would cause the most damage for the entire state, as virtually no part of the Peninsula would be spared.
At least the further West it goes the smaller the area of damage will be, although it sucks for those who are impacted.
And hopefully if it slams in the Cuba, which was not forecasted, it should at least take some of the punch out of it.
Here is a listing of the number hurricanes by years since 1851.
2005 leads with 28 named storms and 15 hurricanes.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html
(Hurricane activity peaks during the second week of SEP, and hurricane season extends until late NOV)
Sfl
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