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Why Slow-Moving Tropical Storms And Hurricanes Can Be Worse Than Major Hurricanes
weather ^ | 06/03/2025 | Jonathan Belles

Posted on 06/04/2025 6:44:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Tropical storms and hurricanes that move slowly near the coast or inland are among the most feared by forecasters.

Sometimes these tropical cyclones may not have powerful wind speeds, but the threats posed can be amplified due to their sluggish pace.

Here's a look at what a slow speed means for rainfall potential and some other typical threats from a storm that's in no hurry to exit a region.

A slow-moving storm brings relentless rainfall In focus: The slower a storm moves, the more incredible the rainfall amounts can become. A storm chugging along at just 5 mph has a rainfall potential upwards of 30 inches, while one moving briskly at 20 mph typically produces much smaller rain totals in any given location. When this occurs near mountainous terrain, rainfall totals can be further enhanced. Reinforced: A landfalling major hurricane that is moving at an average or faster-than-average pace can drop less rainfall than a slow-moving tropical depression or storm.

(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...


TOPICS: Reference; Science; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: hurricanes; major; slowmoving; storms; tropical; why; worse
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That headline had me thinking WTF is he talking about
1 posted on 06/04/2025 6:44:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Possibilities:
1. We are all going to die because of climate change

2. We are all going to die because of cuts to the National Weather Service


2 posted on 06/04/2025 6:47:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The eye of Jeanne passed over us at 1 mph w/ 90 mph sustained winds. It was 12 hours of hell that I don’t want to relive anytime soon.


3 posted on 06/04/2025 6:48:41 AM PDT by FLNittany
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To: FLNittany

WOW


4 posted on 06/04/2025 6:50:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Anything else? LOL


5 posted on 06/04/2025 6:50:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Bottom line: Take some personal responsibility

1) Know what the typical weather is in your geography
2) Pay attention to hazardous weather warnings 3) Be prepared

6 posted on 06/04/2025 6:52:34 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I heard a hurricane forecast guy that said if you divide 50 by forward speed you will get approximate rainfall.

In 1979, a tropical depression stalled on the Gulf Coast of Texas between Houston and Galveston and dumped 44” in 24 hours, a record that still stands.


7 posted on 06/04/2025 6:57:51 AM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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that is amazing


8 posted on 06/04/2025 6:58:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: Clay Moore

That’s about three years’ worth around here.


9 posted on 06/04/2025 7:01:11 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Agnes ruined my June in 1972. Like three weeks of a stalled tropical storm over the mid Atlantic states. As a kid, all I got to do was watch cartoons and float makeshift toy boats down the street gutters. Nasty stalled mess of a storm.


10 posted on 06/04/2025 7:01:43 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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Yikes


11 posted on 06/04/2025 7:03:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes, but thank goodness we didn’t have Climate Change religion fifty years ago!


12 posted on 06/04/2025 7:06:22 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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And I remember snow storms before climate change that dumped snow all the way up to my waist ... of course I was only 3 feet tall at the time.


13 posted on 06/04/2025 7:11:37 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because they’re over you longer.

That is not rocket science.


14 posted on 06/04/2025 7:16:03 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hurricane Harvey was a major headache. It hit Houston, and basically just stopped moving. Had constant HARD rain for 3-4 days. Wind was minor compared to something like Ike, but rainfall destroyed many neighborhoods.


15 posted on 06/04/2025 7:17:02 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First the climate scammers promised more hurricanes. When that didn’t happen the promised stronger hurricanes. Now that hasn’t happened so they are left with “tropical storms are worse than the hurricanes we lied about.”


16 posted on 06/04/2025 7:20:29 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: metmom

A stalled tropical storm over land is now wordsmithed into an “Atmospheric River”.


17 posted on 06/04/2025 7:21:00 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll take rainfall over intensity every time. YMMV.


18 posted on 06/04/2025 7:33:10 AM PDT by Romulus ( )
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To: ShadowAce

Tropical Storm Allison in the late 90’s is a good example. Massive flooding in the Houston area took lives.


19 posted on 06/04/2025 7:35:22 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Katrina was sluggish but large mass

Camille was a testarossa cane strength wise but smaller mass

Both similarly destroyed same areas

So yes a slower moving weaker storm can match a fast once a century storm


20 posted on 06/04/2025 7:45:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (The Blob must be bled dry)
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