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Why Hurricane Milton became so intense so fast — and why more storms may do the same
The Hill ^ | 10/09/2024 | Zack Budryk

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; fakenews; fast; globalwarminghoax; hurricane; hurricanemilton; intense; lyinggovernment; milton
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Here we go... They can't help themselves.
1 posted on 10/09/2024 11:41:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump’s fault


2 posted on 10/09/2024 11:42:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IN the process of downgrading...down to a CAT 3 and expected to drop further.


3 posted on 10/09/2024 11:42:56 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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...


4 posted on 10/09/2024 11:43:11 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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IN the process of downgrading...down to a CAT 3 and expected to drop further..

Is this factual information, or is it personal opinion based on the past?

5 posted on 10/09/2024 11:44:50 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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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.


6 posted on 10/09/2024 11:45:02 AM PDT by basalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

B$!


7 posted on 10/09/2024 11:45:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of so-called experts! Americas the most useless aristocrats in history!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t have to rread a word. I know they are going to revert to their climate voodoo.


8 posted on 10/09/2024 11:46:15 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When did politicians become such experts on the weather????


9 posted on 10/09/2024 11:46:16 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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10 posted on 10/09/2024 11:47:21 AM 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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almost literally

Which was it?

11 posted on 10/09/2024 11:47:29 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because there is an election coming up and weaponized weather modification is being used to conduct warfare on the American population.


12 posted on 10/09/2024 11:47:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Jim W N
When did politicians become such experts on the weather????

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.

13 posted on 10/09/2024 11:48:12 AM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: CatOwner

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..


14 posted on 10/09/2024 11:48:39 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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“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.”


15 posted on 10/09/2024 11:48:55 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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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...


16 posted on 10/09/2024 11:52:16 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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Why Hurricane Milton became so intense so fast — and why more storms may do the same

Basically, it was because of Republican policies championed by Donald Trump, the greatest villain of all time.

17 posted on 10/09/2024 11:52:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Dead Corpse

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...


18 posted on 10/09/2024 11:52:53 AM PDT by basalt
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To: dpetty121263

Yes.

It’s still a big storm.


19 posted on 10/09/2024 11:54:03 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

will we see article on how they dissipate quickly?


20 posted on 10/09/2024 11:54:46 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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