Posted on 10/07/2024 11:14:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(NEXSTAR) – Hurricane Milton intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale over the course of several hours on Monday morning as it progressed toward Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.
It was also expected to bring heavy rainfall and storm surges to parts of Florida before weakening and making landfall.
When will hurricane season end? People living in the Gulf area’s most frequent hurricane paths, meanwhile, are no stranger to storms. But the rapid intensification of these storms? That might be relatively new.
Rapid intensification is defined by the National Hurricane Center as an increase of at least 30 knots (about 35 mph) in maximum sustained winds within a 24-hour period, which can mean a jump of two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
As it currently stands, rapid intensification has been observed in about 80% of all major hurricanes in the North Atlantic “and nearly all category four and five hurricanes,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said earlier this year.
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No.
Never get your science from the press.
Uh, no. Doesn’t anyone remember Camille? Thinking it was pre glowbull warming hysteria. I got back to the Waveland/Bay St Louis are two days after it hit. Pretty intense storm.
......Are hurricanes intensifying more rapidly than ever before?....
No.
Nor are hurricane more numerous.
Well, this one did, but that’s just this one.
And anyway, if they are, maybe it’s time to think about God again. He oversees the whole show anyway.
1950s has the most hurricanes on record for any decade.
No.
1916 Charleston hurricane
Similar type of Hurricane to hit Asheville in 1916.
Damn you, Dick Cheney!
I was having this discussion earlier today, the first weather satellite went up in space sometime around the 1960s, prior to that for those hurricanes that never came near the mainland US, we didn’t know how many hurricanes formed during any one year.
The data shows no trend in increasing intensity overall nor in the number of major hurricanes or storms in general. The data can be seen here
https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?arch&loc=global
Just note that the graphing script repeats the data on the horizontal axis. I contacted Prof Klotzbach and they are working on the programming glitch.
I know one thing, So far this new one has made a U turn and is heading back towards the Mexican Yucatan. It has not headed towards Florida once yet since it started. I have been documenting it. They keep moving the “path” around a LOT to try and make it hit Florida but it is not working yet. Reality is we don’t know yet.
What about hurricanes in 1639? 1540? 1123?
We have NO IDEA what hurricanes were like or the impact or severity or frequency before we started measuring. How can anyone say things have never been more frequent and destructive?
We simply do not know.
Before what?
No, they are not.
This kind of nonsense could serve to not take dangerous conditions as seriously by engaging in hyperbole like this.
This is like that one storm a few years ago where they did headlines with “Category 6?” and the storm was a Category 1 when it made landfall.
No.
Hurricanes intensify mostly when they are over warm water, over 80F. The warmer the water, the more hurricane fuel.
This season was pratty quiet until Helene, so the Gulf waters never got stirred up and cooled off. Temperatures like this are hurricane rocket fuel. It happens.
Add to that favorable conditions aloft that favor the development of hurricanes, and this is what you get.
The Gulf coast has been spared MANY times over the decades. Statistically, it was bound to catch up to them some time.
And no, it’s not weather modification any more than it’s *climate change*.
If the answer were “yes”, would they have framed the headline as a question?
If you get away from fearmongering, the real science predicts that, if there is global warming, there shall be less hurricanes.
In Earth history (and there is science behind that!) every time it got warmer, the hurricanes abated.
The Earth warming in general affects mostly temperatures around poles and in the moderate belt.
Tropics climate does not change.
(see Venus, she is the ultimate green house, her temperatures are staggeringly huge, but the difference between equator and poles is practically nil)
So the temperature gradient between warm and colder zones gets lower. Hurricanes are triggered by this gradient.
That there is no decrease of hurricanes testify to the fact that there is hardly any warming!
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