Is there nothing climate change can’t do? Just wait until they put that 30 million acre wind farm up in the gulf. Talk about gumming up the water......
Is the named storm after Beryl going to be Lium?
I do appreciate them actually saying “in recorded history” instead of the usual terminology.
Recorded history is a useless base
We will survive.
nice tight eye wall. A+
“not good”
So, hurricanes in and of themselves are not bad. Just when they are early.
Tell those Jamaicans that it’s a terrible thing that they have to suffer a category 5 hurricane before July 17th. If only it could have waited it’s turn. It would have been perfectly fine to have a Cat5 storm in August though.
And that recorded history is since the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Not an extensive history.
The leftidiots will blame Climate Change or Trump. The reality is we are dealing with a “solar maximum.” Has to do with how Jupiter aligns with the Earth and the Sun (this is VERY simplified). But even basic astrophysics is so beyond leftidiots its ridiculous. Just like basic economics and international policy is beyond them.
We treat the world like nothing of importance or note happened before about 1945. Entire fleets have been sunk by storms, probably record storms. But since we didn’t have a way of categorizing, it’s as if it never happened. Do you think the Mongol fleet that was going to invade Japan, or the Spanish Armada were sunk by CAT 3 storms? Probably not.
A storm in the Pacific in WWII sank US destroyers. Here’s an excerpt from a writeup on that.
“The Navy Department Library
Typhoons and Hurricanes: Pacific Typhoon at Okinawa, October 1945
On 4 October 1945, a typhoon was spotted developing in the Caroline Islands and tracked as it moved on a predictable course to the northwest. Although expected to pass into the East China Sea north of Formosa on 8 October, the storm unexpectedly veered north toward Okinawa. That evening the storm slowed down and, just as it approached Okinawa, began to greatly increase in intensity. The sudden shift of the storm caught many ships and small craft in the constricted waters of Buckner Bay (Nakagusuku Wan) and they were unable to escape to sea. On 9 October, when the storm passed over the island, winds of 80 knots (92 miles per hour) and 30-35 foot waves battered the ships and craft in the bay and tore into the quonset huts and buildings ashore. A total of 12 ships and craft were sunk, 222 grounded, and 32 severely damaged. [for listing of vessels] Personnel casualties were 36 killed, 47 missing, and 100 seriously injured. “
Is there any indication that it could head for Louisiana?
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.
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
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