This is a bad combination...
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
Posted on 08/31/2004 12:50:42 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Edited on 08/31/2004 4:05:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The winds are actually faster as you increase altitude. The surface winds fortunately suffer from drag by contact with the ground and sea and don't go as fast as winds 100s of feet up.
It's generally the storm surge that does the real damage. The storm surge from a landfalling cat 4 can be as much as 10-20 feet.
Fortunately CHARLEY didn't get fully formed before it reached land and had only a 6-8 foot surge. We had about 4 feet 70-80 miles south of landfall.
Please change thread title to Category 5 Flight Winds.
LIGHTEN UP, FRANCES!
He does use a big hammer.
Cat 5 = "Finger of God" territory.
You are going off of 2pm data..I was going off of Vortex Recon in the last hour.
Yeah, it recently went through reorginzation which isn't really good news. All satellite pictures indicate healthy outflow as well.
I live in Pasadena TX, a town outside Houston. I know the games these people play.
No weather service has categorized this as a cat 5. You may have jumped the gun a bit...
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
Statement from Max Mayfield just released:
What we don't have a great deal of confidence with is if it's going to continue to go west-northwest into South Florida or start bending a little more toward the northwest," Mayfield said from the center near Miami.
"I'm afraid that even Thursday we're not going to have the definitive answer. The message pretty clearly here is that at this stage of the game, the bad news is we have a major hurricane headed in our general direction."
"We may have to go through the drill without knowing where it's going to hit," Mayfield said. "At this stage, it certainly looks like Florida will be impacted."
Courtesy
Eliot Kleinberg
Palm Beach Post
Is the scale related to wind speed, or barometric pressure, or both..and are the two directly related..i.e. if a storm has a really low pressure count, will the winds always be high?
Wind speed, although it is mostly indicative of how destructive the hurricane would be if it were to make landfall.
"My friends call me 'Psycho'! You call me Frances... I'll kill ya! You touch my stuff... I'll kill ya!"
yes...wind and pressure correlate relatively well....it may take one a couple hours to catch up with the other.
the official scale rankings are based on sustained surface winds only.
Lighten up, Francis (please)
They're related and affect each other, but a specific pressure does not always mean a specific wind speed.
The more the pressure is lowered, the quicker the surrounding air will try to rush in and fill the void. Of course the coriolis effect sets it spinning.
yes, yes, yes, yes
Holy crap. Look at that eye.
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