Posted on 07/02/2024 1:24:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
The hurricane already hit Grenada, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines with venom, and now encroaches on Jamaica.
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Hurricane Beryl over the Caribbean. Image: NASA
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Hurricane Beryl was upgraded to a Category 5 storm earlier today, making it the earliest storm to hit the heavy-hitting benchmark on record. The storm’s winds peaked at a staggering 160 miles per hour (258 km/hr) as it continued its northwesterly course across the Caribbean.
Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, stated on X that the previous record-holder was Hurricane Emily, which hit Category 5 status on July 17, 2005. According to The New York Times, Beryl will remain at least a Category 3 storm as it moves towards Jamaica.
Unfortunately, Beryl’s expeditious intensity is not unexpected. In May, the National Weather Service predicted “above-normal” hurricane activity for the season, which runs from June 1 through November 30. Those months approximate the timeframe in which the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico tend to warm up, providing the conditions for massive storm systems to form over their waters.
NWS forecasters predicted up to 25 named storms for the season, four to seven of which were predicted to form major hurricanes, or storms with winds greater than 111 miles per hour (178.64 kilometers per hour). Category 5 storms are those with winds that exceed 157 mph (252 km/hr).
Beryl is the second named storm this year after Tropical Storm Alberto, which petered out in late June after dumping rain across coastal Mexico and Texas. Beryl is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico by the weekend, though it’s not clear whether it will maintain its current intensity by the time it passes Jamaica.
Life-threatening winds and storm surge are expected in Jamaica on Wednesday as Beryl continues to move west just south of Hispaniola. Jamaica is (obviously) under a hurricane warning, and NWS stated a tropical storm warning is in effect for the Cayman Islands and southwestern Haiti.
A paper published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proposed revising the Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricane categories to include a sixth category, to account for storms becoming more extreme as ocean temperatures warm. Though it’s hard to draw an explicit link between climate change and extreme weather, warming ocean temperatures and increased moisture in the air provide favorable conditions for more intense hurricanes.
“We expected that climate change was going to make the winds of the most intense storms stronger,” Michael Wehner, a coauthor of the paper and an extreme weather researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told Grist at the time. “What we’ve demonstrated here is that, yeah, it’s already happening. We tried to put numbers on how much worse it’ll get.”
The team concluded that “a number of recent storms have already achieved this hypothetical category 6 intensity” and based on their models “more such storms are projected as the climate continues to warm.”
With the earliest Category 5 storm on record now whipping its way across the Atlantic, we’d better hunker down. The next few months are primed to be a doozy.
So this is the earliest Cat 5 storm in 50 years (that we can be sure of). The US Govt only started tracking and naming hurricanes since 1953.
Thread winnah!
Right. You can’t re-educate these people either, since they haven’t been educated in the first place.
No
“The reality is we are dealing with a “solar maximum.””
May 10 we could see the Northern Lights as far south as South Carolina. It turned the sky pink in Tennessee.
Has anyone ever experienced the Northern Lights so far from the arctic? Probably nobody.
The sun is spewing enormous amounts of energy out right now.
Well what about ghost ‘themicanes’. We don’t know about those. 😁👍
Climate change is here have no doubt
Too much rain too much drought
Run in circles scream and shout
It’ll cook your brain and freeze your feet
Too much rain too much heat
Snow coming soon no relief in sight
Tornados and floods you better run for your life
Climate change is here better hide in fear.
They need more money or it gets severe
Hurricanes on the way they’re comin soon
You’re all going to die in the next typhoon
Too much rain too much drought
Run in circles scream and shout
Yup. That big ball of thermonuclear fire in the sky drawfs any influence we little tiny things on this planet could do.
At least some of the leftist wannabe rulers know this. Some such as AOC are too stupid to understand even the basics.
That's not the real problem. The real problem is leftidiot voters who are too stupid, ignorant, or both to know they are being played. Thank you NEA for turning our education system into an indoctrination system (and other things the leftscum have done).
Hurricanes don’t occur just because it is hot, nor do they become strongly powerful just because it is hot. They occur under very specific conditions with fairly specific crosswinds - too slow and they don’t pick up the spin and carry the vortex to where more energy can be collected, and too fast and they get disrupted. Temperature *differential* is what makes them powerful.
The past two years there has been quite dramatic atmospheric warming. It has warmed so fast, that it completely breaks the models, and is clearly not caused by CO2-based effects.
Don’t get caught up in dismissing the current atmospheric warming just because the hyenas have been screeching about it hysterically the previous few decades. The current signal is quite distinct.
What caused it? Enormous amounts of water vapor blasted into the upper atmosphere by a volcano which erupted at just the right depth so as to not get smothered by the ocean, nor just splay out in the normal fashion. Instead it essentially formed a shotgun blast of water into the upper atmosphere (up to 53km in altitude), where it really doesn’t have any other way to get there, and so it “shouldn’t” be there.
Estimates are that we are going to have a 5-8 period with a lot of warming, and observations show that we have had atmospheric warming the past two years *completely* out of line with the variability on the general warming trend we have seen over the past several decades. The warming trend is far too *large* to be from CO2, or man-kinds actions.
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/
Within this longer video, by a science blogger Astrum, is a video of some men on a beach 35 miles away when the shock wave arrives, sounding like a very loud rifle shot.
https://youtu.be/sZZVVwqZ0rs?t=249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTqphI0ods
“ Is the named storm after Beryl going to be Lium?”
No, cadmium.
That blasted glow-bull warming. Gotta be the biggest threat to our dear planet Earth. Just reading stuff like this wants me to hide under the bed tonight hugging my Teddy Bear.
Recorded history, as it relates to hurricane strength ratings used today, only goes back 50 years. Beyond that, we can’t judge and compare hurricanes by strength. And for anyone to say anything now is different than before ‘recorded history’, without pointing out the limitations of suck a short recorded history, is scientific malpractice.
“The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Dr. Robert Simpson, who was the director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) at the time. The scale was introduced to the public in 1973 and has been used by the NHC to evaluate hurricane strength since the early 1970s.”
-—Wikipedia
*** But the party of slavery in the U.S. wants their cult followers to believe that slavery here was some kind of unprecedented thing.***
Truth!
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