Posted on 10/09/2024 11:41:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday in the Tampa, Fla., region after undergoing a rapid intensification this week that saw it become the third-fastest storm on record to reach Category 5 status, the most extreme classification on the hurricane scale.
Less than two weeks earlier, Hurricane Helene escalated in a similarly short time span in the Gulf of Mexico before ravaging the southeastern U.S.
The warming climate has been a large factor in these storms’ high intensity, as well as the pace of their intensification — and if temperatures continue to rise, future storms could gain strength faster than the communities in their path can prepare for them.
“There are a number of metrics by which both of these storms are either the most intense or most rapidly intensifying storm we’ve seen in this region,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who researches the dynamics of extreme weather events.
In Helene’s case, Swain said, that meant an unprecedented storm surge and inland amount of rainfall, much of which had its most dramatic effect on western North Carolina. In Milton’s, he noted the storm strengthened to Category 5 “almost literally overnight.”
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Trump’s fault
IN the process of downgrading...down to a CAT 3 and expected to drop further.
Storms are big heat pumps... The greater the differential in temp, the more powerful the storm.
A warming Earth would have LESS of a differential. IOW... their “science” sucks... Again. Predictably...
Is this factual information, or is it personal opinion based on the past?
and it weakened just as fast....just like i said it would. Itll be cat 2-3 at landfall. Its all been seen and done before...nothing new.
B$!
I don’t have to rread a word. I know they are going to revert to their climate voodoo.
When did politicians become such experts on the weather????
Which was it?
Because there is an election coming up and weaponized weather modification is being used to conduct warfare on the American population.
Not much different than people who are claiming that weather modification has been used to make storms more intense in an attempt to hit red states before the election.
Factual, it is downgrading..as with the media they who love nothing better than hype stuff up and when a really bad one comes up people will ignore the next one..
“IN the process of downgrading...down to a CAT 3 and expected to drop further.”
Yes.
“CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said the latest forecast track shows Milton making landfall over or near southern Sarasota, Florida, at some point between 10 p.m. and midnight ET as a Category 3 hurricane. Earlier forecasts predicted Milton would arrive as a low-end Category 4 storm.”
Don’t get me wrong a CAT 3 can do damage but nothing like I heard some of the Media claiming a rare CAT 6...
Basically, it was because of Republican policies championed by Donald Trump, the greatest villain of all time.
they go on and on about ocean temps..but that is NOT what makes a hurricane a cat 5 storm. I dont care if the water is 212 degrees and boiling, if the wind flow and lack of shear isnt picture perfect, NOTHING HAPPENS. Nobody pushes back on this climate change garbage...
Yes.
It’s still a big storm.
will we see article on how they dissipate quickly?
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