“It has dropped fifty millibars, in ten hours” he said, choking up in the process.
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The pain and anguish caused by an an almost imperceptibly slow warming of the planet often causes me to get choked up. /s
Does he not think this has happened countless times over the past millenia, when mankind had no means to measure it?
You can rest assured that the idiot is a DEI hire and not an actual intelligent and informed expert on the topic, when he mentions numbers "so scary" that they make him cry on camera... without giving anything by way of comparison to indicate why 50 in 10 hrs is a big deal.
ACTUAL INFORMATION: Hurricane Wilma, one of the Big Names in history, dropped 97 millibars in 24 hours. So Milton's 50 in 10 is a similar pace as Wilma, but not as sustained. Wilma killed 52, and did $26bn in damage.
Hurricane Mitch in 1998 killed almost 12,000. Katrina in 2005 killed 1300.
2005 had 3 Hurricanes under 904 millibars. Mitch is bottoming out at 897. Wilma holds the record at 882.
For Mitch:
October 8, the pressure fell from 981 mb (28.97 inHg) to 897 mbar (26.49 inHg), a drop of 84 mb (2.48 inHg), while the winds increased by 90 mph (145 km/h). This was also the third-fastest period of rapid intensification in the Atlantic after Wilma and Hurricane Felix, and the fastest in the Gulf of Mexico. Afterwards, further strengthening was halted by an eyewall replacement cycle, causing the storm to weaken, falling to high-end Category 4 intensity later that night.