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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kinda appreciate the hurricanes chasing out the northeast knuckle daggers...
It’s the environmental version of ‘mansplaining’.
Same time they did on Viruses and Vaccines.
Why was Camille so bad in 1969?
What made the Long Island Hurricane of 1938 accelerate so fast?
There’s a reason they don’t teach history any more.
Let me guess
1) Trump
2) Climate Change
3) white supremacy
Exactly...
There’s a reason they don’t teach history any more.
You got that right.
Indeed
Swain said, that meant an unprecedented storm surge and inland amount of rainfall.
Wonder what the pay scale is for the highest movement of the panic meter?.
LOL!
We have idiots on the left who think human activity is affecting the development of hurricanes.
And
We have idiots on the right who think human activity is affecting the development of hurricanes.
What we need is more people who pay attention in science class ...
Climate scientists have recently focused their search into a new, recently discovered phenomenon the indigenous people in many parts of the world call "summer."
Just two days ago, they said we needed to add a “Category 6.”
It will be a Category 26 before you know it. :-P
They called it a 100 year event, that pretty much says it happened at least once before all of this globull warming/climate change Horse $hit! And in that last 100 years how much has Florida been developed and population grown so that yeah there is more destruction.
Maybe because it was in the Gulf of Mexico , maybe
It’s losing it’s puff , it’s down to a 4 and soon a 3
So,no other recorded storms have intensioned so quickly? Le’s see the evidence.
Warming happened during the ice age where glaciers retreated north forming the Great Lakes.
No industry. Turns out that’s just how our planet works.
First they laugh at you as a conspiracy theorist.
Then they deplatform you for spreading misinformation.
Then they imprison you because shut up.
Then you are proven right and they claim they never said it was a conspiracy theory/misinformation or that you should shut up.
Milton went from 1 to 5 on the same day Gretel Thurnberg started passing gas about her poor Muzzie, Jew-killing, pen pal terrorists friends.
It’s getting harder and harder to believe that all of this torrid prognosticating can do anything but come up short. Are they driving for clicks?
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