Possibilities:
1. We are all going to die because of climate change
2. We are all going to die because of cuts to the National Weather Service
The eye of Jeanne passed over us at 1 mph w/ 90 mph sustained winds. It was 12 hours of hell that I don’t want to relive anytime soon.
1) Know what the typical weather is in your geography
2) Pay attention to hazardous weather warnings 3) Be prepared
I heard a hurricane forecast guy that said if you divide 50 by forward speed you will get approximate rainfall.
In 1979, a tropical depression stalled on the Gulf Coast of Texas between Houston and Galveston and dumped 44” in 24 hours, a record that still stands.
Agnes ruined my June in 1972. Like three weeks of a stalled tropical storm over the mid Atlantic states. As a kid, all I got to do was watch cartoons and float makeshift toy boats down the street gutters. Nasty stalled mess of a storm.
Because they’re over you longer.
That is not rocket science.
Hurricane Harvey was a major headache. It hit Houston, and basically just stopped moving. Had constant HARD rain for 3-4 days. Wind was minor compared to something like Ike, but rainfall destroyed many neighborhoods.
First the climate scammers promised more hurricanes. When that didn’t happen the promised stronger hurricanes. Now that hasn’t happened so they are left with “tropical storms are worse than the hurricanes we lied about.”
I’ll take rainfall over intensity every time. YMMV.
Katrina was sluggish but large mass
Camille was a testarossa cane strength wise but smaller mass
Both similarly destroyed same areas
So yes a slower moving weaker storm can match a fast once a century storm
Those of us that have lived in hurricane alley for our whole lives have always known this. I would rather see a fast moving cat 3 or 4 than a slow moving cat 1. It’s not necessarily the wind damage, it’s the fact that it can rain for days and cause widespread flooding.
Truth. Hurricane Harvey dumped over 60 inches of rain on Texas in the week it took to pass over.
For those of us who live in drought stricken Texas, we need a hurricane to slow into a tropical depression and park itself with three or four days of good serious rain.
For those of us who live in drought stricken Texas, we need a hurricane to slow into a tropical depression and park itself with three or four days of good serious rain.