Posted on 05/15/2024 7:20:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower
As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, forecasts and scientific analyses predict a notably active period, potentially setting new records for storm frequency and intensity. This year’s hurricane outlook is influenced by a variety of climatic factors, with the potential to significantly impact the U.S. coastline and beyond.
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They say this every year. When it doesn't happen they never issua a retraction.
Sounds like a lot of “potential.”
Is the central part of Florida safe? I’m thinking Winter Haven and the Villages. Thanks.
Your biggest concern about The Villages would be STDs......and that’s not a joke.
Anyone remember last year’s hysterical cries that “the ocean is boiling”? Where were the back-to-back Category 5’s?
Some people are just not happy unless they have something to worry about.
Last year the weather “experts” predicted hurricane Ian would hit the Tampa area almost right up until landfall....as it turned out, it made landfall at Fort Meyers.....that’s a 100 mile miss in they’re prediction.
How many people in Lee county failed to prepare as well as they should have because of that error I wonder, and whatever negative impact that mistake had will never be known.
From storm surge probably. Winds? Maybe not. Ya gotta watch out for those Cat 20 storms.
Even though I live at the beach, I'm always concerned about the wind, not the dreaded weather channel storm surge.
Andrew was a bad ass storm that could have destroyed SoFla if it hit further north and was moving slower. Imagine 24 hours of this:
I watch the weather channel for comic relief and nothing else......their whole business model is based on breathlessly keeping people constantly on edge......sad part is there’s a whole lot of weak minded people believing every word.
Joe
Jill
James
Hunter
four more names to represent devastation
I view the Weather Channel as Fear Porn. I sat her a couple of years ago with my wife’s brother who came down here to get a away from the potential strike of a hurricane in Jacksonville. The weather channel made it look like the J’ville area was getting destroyed. When he got home he had a couple of 1” limbs down in his yard.
What about Bathouse Barry?
Don’t their predictions fall into the range of Punxsutawney Phil in terms of their overall accuracy?
It’s a 20-year-old joke. And not true anymore...
It happens to be the fastest growing community in the fastest growing State(or close) in the country.
No, I don’t live there but I know people who do and they love it.
“The Villages” where half of the inhabitants are swingers and the other half want to be...
So I’ve heard..(Note: I live in Florida but NOT in the villages..)
The problem is, most of ‘em down there are yankees
That’s not a joke because it’s not funny and it was based on only one person’s small investigation several years ago. That it’s still brought up as a general fact is a reminder of how biased our media is.
“potentially setting new records for storm frequency and intensity”
And just as potentially NOT!!!
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