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Milton threatens to reach max limits, sparking calls for a new Category 6 designation for hurricanes
https://nypost.com ^ | 10/8/2024 | PATRICK REILLY

Posted on 10/08/2024 11:54:39 AM PDT by bitt

Hurricane Milton is threatening to reach known maximum limits with wind gusts already topping 200 miles per hour — leading to calls for a new Category 6 designation for such a historic superstorm.

“This is nothing short of astronomical,” Florida meteorologist Noah Bergren said late Monday as Milton reached sustained winds of 180 mph and “gusts 200+ mph.”

“I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe to you the storm’s small eye and intensity,” he marveled.

“This hurricane is nearing the mathematical limit of what Earth’s atmosphere over this ocean water can produce.”

After being a monster Category 5 storm for much of Monday, Milton was downgraded early Tuesday to a Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph — just two mph below a Category 5 — but is expected to increase again as it churns towards Florida’s gulf coast, where it is expected to have a devastating impact.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cat6; climatechange; followthemoney; hurricanemilton; propaganda
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 11:54:39 AM PDT by bitt
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My amplifier goes to 11!


2 posted on 10/08/2024 11:55:51 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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3 posted on 10/08/2024 11:55:56 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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How in the heck is getting a Cat6 bin going to help anything?


4 posted on 10/08/2024 11:56:40 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Really. Whole idea makes no sense.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 11:57:43 AM PDT by yldstrk
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How in the heck is getting a Cat6 bin going to help anything?

Mainly for the climate change rhetoric.

6 posted on 10/08/2024 11:57:57 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: NavyShoe

“My amplifier goes to 11!”

Exactly what I was thinking. Great Spinal Tap reference.


7 posted on 10/08/2024 11:59:09 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: NavyShoe

Actually one of mine goes to 12. What surprises me is this weather person knows what earth’s limits are with over water storm mathematical maximums. He should share right? 🤔


8 posted on 10/08/2024 12:00:27 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from withinE? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: CatOwner

Precisely.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 12:01:02 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: bitt

The one expert who seems to be right was one on Glann Beck recently. His father was a meteorologist, too.

He said the core intensity of power of the hurricane is more important than the news of it reaching a Category 4 or 5.

He said it will probably descend to 4 and might hit the land at 3 but instead of sounding better and news people being relieved about that, it would mean a worse punch due to the smaller and empowered core. And the flood waters will be terrible.

He did not think a horseshoe effect would happen in the Atlantic causing it to swirl back to Florida as happened once or twice long ago.


10 posted on 10/08/2024 12:02:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Paladin2

How about 5+? It works for the LGBTQ community.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 12:03:39 PM PDT by Right Brother
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Hahaha. Very appropriate. If a hurricane blows at 200 mph, and no one is around to record it,
does it still count? Or are did all weather phenomena only occur in the in the 21st Century?

12 posted on 10/08/2024 12:04:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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Looks like it makes landfall just as darkness sets in. Gonna be a rough night.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 12:04:19 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Right Brother

I like it.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 12:05:00 PM PDT by sevinufnine
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Milton

https://youtu.be/pHHZBmF8mk4?si=69_nzK8kO7KrTV7M


15 posted on 10/08/2024 12:06:01 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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Sure. Sure. Make a Cat 6 and they will want a Cat 7

WHERE DOES IT STOP?????

16 posted on 10/08/2024 12:07:14 PM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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what pronouns are hurricanes? Just curious


17 posted on 10/08/2024 12:08:58 PM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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As a Floridian whose been through hurricanes for over 65 years now, I’m saying it’s a CAT 3 when it hits shore. Since it’s slow moving, it’ll get bigger over the gulf and widen out, dissipating the heat energy over a bigger area. That’s still not good for the beach communities and subdivisions built on old swampland, so all New Yorkers, head north for a couple of decades till it’s safe again. The good thing about the storm being where it’s at is, surfs up, so the east coast surfers have driven over will be catching nice long waves today and tomorrow morning. Once again, if you’re from NY, evacuate for at least two decades.


18 posted on 10/08/2024 12:10:41 PM PDT by Waverunner
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Cat 5 is cat 5. Anything higher is a hypercane, and those are theoretically not possible unless the ocean water is above 120 degrees.


19 posted on 10/08/2024 12:24:02 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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I did not believe the government could control the weather, except for seeding clouds to make it rain a little more, but now it looks like they are augmenting hurricanes for political purposes.
But of course they will deny it and blame global warming/climate change even though it hasn't been all that warm.

20 posted on 10/08/2024 12:26:09 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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