Here's another perspective:
The power of water is amazing, deserving of admiration and humility, and a mark of God's presence on earth. Instead, these leftist fools just use it for fear-mongering and self-loathing.
Posted on 06/29/2021 10:52:19 AM PDT by JV3MRC
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Sandy’s sustained winds on New Jersey were in excess of 85 MPH, making it a Category 2 hurricane. The only reason I could imagine someone claiming it wasn’t a hurricane is that it wasn’t considered tropical as of about 2 1/2 hours before hitting New Jersey.
Thanks for setting the record straight.
I appreciate it.
There are a number of parts to defining a hurricane, going beyond wind speed, and yes, it starts with it being tropical. Sustained winds over 75mph alone would qualify tornadoes, Nor’easters, blizzards, and many inland thunderstorms as ‘hurricanes’.
Hurricanes are a tropical phenomenon which gains its energy from warm, humid air over oceans, and while they often have rain walls, storms like Sandy are caused by somewhat or wholly distinct temperature differentials and
dewpoint differences and while rotating and may have less cloudy areas in the center area, they are more characterized by fronts. Quite simply, they work differently even if they both have high winds.
‘Hurricane Sandy died down after hitting the Bahamas, but retained some of its organization, and water vapor. ‘Superstorm Sandy’ gained the vast majority of its energy from the remnants of the tropical storm colliding with a cold front in what is called a Fujihara(sp?) effect. That’s why a lot of the storm was actually dry, and why it extended out over Ohio while still centered in NY/NJ, with tropical storm force winds spanning over 1100 miles - far larger than a hurricane.
It keeps getting called ‘Hurricane Sandy’ by the folks who try to imply it was related to Global Warming, but the seas it developed in were not abnormally warm, and the force of it came from feeding that humidity into that cold front.
2021 is the year Soylent Green takes place in. I was young enough at the time the movie came out (1973) to be scared by it.
Your pic is cooler. I think you got the point that the picture I posted was misleading.
Nor’easters, blizzards and derechoes aren’t cyclonic. Sandy was a subtropical, cyclonic former hurricane of hurricane-strength winds. I won’t accuse someone of conspiracy if they call such a storm a “hurricane”: The technical reason it wasn’t a hurricane was because it wasn’t tropical, even though you had called it “a tropical depression.” But yes, a lot of news sources called it “Superstorm Sandy” and people already knew it as “Hurricane Sandy.”
absolutely. tks for posting this!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.