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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My amplifier goes to 11!
How in the heck is getting a Cat6 bin going to help anything?
Really. Whole idea makes no sense.
Mainly for the climate change rhetoric.
“My amplifier goes to 11!”
Exactly what I was thinking. Great Spinal Tap reference.
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? 🤔
Precisely.
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.
How about 5+? It works for the LGBTQ community.
Looks like it makes landfall just as darkness sets in. Gonna be a rough night.
I like it.
WHERE DOES IT STOP?????
what pronouns are hurricanes? Just curious
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.
Cat 5 is cat 5. Anything higher is a hypercane, and those are theoretically not possible unless the ocean water is above 120 degrees.
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