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2024 Atlantic hurricane season is primed for storms with 'rapid intensification
accuweather ^ | 05/23/2024 | Alex Sosnowski

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: 2024; atlantic; hurricane; season
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


21 posted on 05/23/2024 10:45:02 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: bak3r
I’m personally going to file this one under fear porn from an irrelevant forecasting service that is trying to bait clicks for advertising revenue.

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.

22 posted on 05/23/2024 10:47:01 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

That’s because they’re actually weather guessers.


23 posted on 05/23/2024 10:57:18 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


24 posted on 05/23/2024 11:35:56 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: 1Old Pro

Hurricanes, mother nature’s tree trimmer


25 posted on 05/23/2024 11:49:47 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: bak3r
Additionally Accuweather has to be one of the worst weather services I have ever used for what it is worth.

Truth. They've been predicting afternoon thunderstorms, which we desperately need, for over a month. Not a drop.

26 posted on 05/23/2024 2:32:07 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: pfflier

I love it! Handwringing season comes every year in June. Beware the CAT-5 Handwringcane!


27 posted on 05/23/2024 4:38:16 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: chiller
The Sun has been beating the tarnation out of us this year. I would expect weather to not be the average this year.

I actually heard a liberal say that reason for the solar activity is because of global warming. I just had to walk away.

28 posted on 06/05/2024 1:45:06 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!! (this post approved by the NSA))
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To: DYngbld

“solar activity is because of global warming”

I’m speechless, words are inadequate...that’s the Grand Prize Winner.


29 posted on 06/05/2024 5:35:31 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Accuweather is based in State College, PA.

There’s a reason for that.


30 posted on 06/05/2024 5:36:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee if only we could raise taxes enough to ward off these hurricanes.


31 posted on 06/05/2024 5:40:34 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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