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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To answer their question, No.
The Gulf is warm in the later summer, early autumn.
This is true almost every late summer or early autumn.
We must alert the media.
Yes, our military ahs become much more efficient in creating weather
Are hurricanes intensifying more rapidly than ever before?
No.
Next.
There was even hurricane Helene on the same date and the same strength 66 years ago! It made lucky turn back into Atlantic, so he damage was relatively low.
Hurricane damage is increasing because;
1) there is inflation, million dollar damage hundred years ago equals to a lot more damage today.
2) there are many more people to be killed and many more buildings and facilities that can be destroyed.
in the colonial and pre colonial era, any hurricane would be practically harmless. There just were nothing it could destroy!
ping (if you’re interested and have time)
By about September 20th, the Gulf of Mexico gets too cold for my comfort.
Hopefully, Milton will find the Gulf of Mexico near me too cold on October 9th for a massive hurricane.
More like more people living in the existing hurricane tracks than 50 years ago.
I live in Florida. My mom worked for a woman with old plat books. Land on the nearby barrier island sold for about $10/acre in the 1930s.
No.
As the summer drags on, the salt warmer will get warmer, so the hurricanes will get stronger and stronger faster.
Hopefully, the Gulf waters near me will have cooled down a bit since early September as they normally do.
This year was a mild year for hurricanes. Of course we’ve had two recently pop up but it happens.
We’re well into an interglacial cycle and temps could indeed rise before another glaciation cycle emerges and that could affect hurricanes in the future. Nothing stays the same.
Fear porn.
Just STOP IT!
2) there are many more people to be killed and many more buildings and facilities that can be destroyed.
The population of USA in 1950 was 150 million.
It is “supposed” to calm down to a 3 by landfall.
My brother is right in the middle of the the path this time. We is away from the coast. He just got finished updating his home and the garage where he works restoring old jeeps. He is pissed that he is going to have to do it all over again.
No kidding. The author hasn’t heard about the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston TX. Best guess was that it was a cat 5 storm. The Cuban weather service warned Washington DC, but the people in DC didn’t warn Galveston. The death toll from that storm was between 9 and 12 thousand.
Global warming or climate change is nothing but a way to tax more money out of us, not to protect us from nature.
No. The inshore waters of the gulf north and east right now are several degrees warmer than further off shore. hat can cause a hurricane to strengthen very fast. An old fisherman aat the marina where I worked before Michael warned all the other boat owners to evacuate west as the gulf waters inshore were much warmer than normal (while the storm was in the Keys) and would be a Cat 5 when it hit. It came up the coast and suddenly strengthened as it hit the hot water on the continental shelf and was the disaster we all know 2 days later.
Weather manipulation is real.
Guess who has the technology in their possession?
What has changed is that — just as with “cold weather” re-imagined as the very scary “polar vortex”, and with a “heavy rainstorm” re-imagined as an equally very scary “atmospheric river”, hurricanes now have a very good promoter in the “modern” media. That’s not to say that there aren’t horrific hurricanes (as are this season’s); it’s that there have always been deadly hurricanes.
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