Posted on 05/23/2024 10:07:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Along with the anticipation of an extremely busy Atlantic hurricane season, AccuWeather meteorologists are greatly concerned that conditions over much of the basin could have a significant number of storms that undergo rapid intensification. Where this occurs as storms approach land could greatly add to the risk to lives and property.
Rapid intensification is a term meteorologists use to define tropical storms and hurricanes that quickly gain strength. The threshold is at least 35 mph in 24 hours or less. This can affect how fast a tropical storm becomes a hurricane or a hurricane jumps one or more categories in less than a day's time.
Rapidly intensifying tropical storms and hurricanes are especially dangerous because they can give the public less time to prepare and often catch people off guard. Predicting a storm's peak intensity and its intensity at landfall is one of the most challenging aspects of weather forecasting, and a rapidly intensifying hurricane adds tremendously to that challenge.
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This weather year has, so far, been kinda’ weird. Mild in my desert, yet boiling in mid-May in Texas, so.....
....I won’t be surprised at anything, from minimal to maximum. If reports are correct that the Atlantic is very warm, then storms may pop often. The massive under ocean volcano comes to mind, too. Such unseen volcano action around the seams could be having a large influence of ocean water temps.
Mother Earth is gonna’ do what she’s gonna’ do. Deal with it...as best we can. She didn’t promise a rose garden.
So many astute posts on here realizing what is happening. It is all about maximizing revenue and has almost nothing to do with approximately informing the public.
That’s because they’re actually weather guessers.
Yes and no. “rapid intensification” is a new metric they adopted, just last year I believe, to scare people into fearing some kind of sudden “Storm Bomb.” Based only data mining, means nothing. But yes this year is under la niña conditions which are conducive to more frequent cyclonic storms, in the Atlantic particularly.
Hurricanes, mother nature’s tree trimmer
Truth. They've been predicting afternoon thunderstorms, which we desperately need, for over a month. Not a drop.
I love it! Handwringing season comes every year in June. Beware the CAT-5 Handwringcane!
I actually heard a liberal say that reason for the solar activity is because of global warming. I just had to walk away.
“solar activity is because of global warming”
I’m speechless, words are inadequate...that’s the Grand Prize Winner.
Accuweather is based in State College, PA.
There’s a reason for that.
Gee if only we could raise taxes enough to ward off these hurricanes.
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