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.
Camille maybe should have been classed as a very large tornado.
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.
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Camille (1969) was a small but intense hurricane. Camille came ashore with sustained winds (two-minute average) in excess of 200 mph and destroyed Bay St. Louis, MS. I almost accepted a job there and the selling point was that all the houses were new.
But the story of Helene was more sinister. I’ve been watching these tropical systems for a long time, since Floyd, 1999, and the extreme eye-wall disruptions are unnatural. Irma and Maria (2017) showed clear signs of tampering with the introduction of GOES-16 (designated GOES-East) visible imagery (0.5 km spatial resolution). When Maria went through Tampa, it had no backside, it was gone. Helene had a greatly reduced south-side too.
I put out a forecast before Helene made landfall:
Look for unreasonable amounts of rainfall in Georgia, and I’m really worried about the mountains of eastern Tennessee, southwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. Especially if the covert government “Hurricane Intensity Modification Program” (bomb the eye-wall) is still in operation, see Super Absorbent sub-micron Particulates.
With Helene, I have never seen them tamper with the eyewall so close to landfall. Hurricanes have a natural ventilation system while over the open water. Here, exhaust from heat energy exits the top of the eye and travels away from the center in a clockwise flow (Northern Hemisphere) as cirrus clouds. But once the storm makes landfall, the ventilation system is cut off.
Particulate matter injected into the eyewall has no way of escape. So, it circulates into the feeder bands causing massive amounts of rainfall for days.
They haven’t started tampering with Milton yet but they will. Milton is a Cat 5 hurricane with a symmetric central dense overcast. If Milton expands in physical size (conservation of angular momentum), they are injecting the eye-wall with particulates. The Intensity Modification causes the eye to become more disorganized with reoccurring holes in the eyewall itself.
Milton should decrease in intensity to possibly a Cat 3 before making landfall. Here we predict decreased wind and storm surge damage at landfall but with increased floods and high water events over a larger area. The saving grace for Florida is that there are no mountains to enhance the rainfall to catastrophic levels.