And Irene remained a Cat 1 all the way up to the NJ coast, so it did not drop dignificantly in wind strength from the strength it was at in Carolina. Oh, and terrain? Get a book. Look at pictures of Pennsylvania and Vermont. See those funny things covered with trees? They're called mountains. Hills. Terrain that magnifies runoff and turns what would be a trivial tropical storm in your neck of the woods into a serious flooding matter. Maybe you could see the news of the flooding of Vermont. A creek nearby me hit its record flood stage of all time.
Oh, and I am not defending the head of the NHC, just the scientists doing their job while taking pot shots from false accusation specialists such as yourself.
You may have the last word, since you seem to be hyperventilating and drooling at this point. Not good for your blood pressure.
You evaded the question that referred to your statement. You said Florida had no terrain, I asked you to define terrain and you go into some long, drawn out lesson on the terrain of PA and VT. I asked you to define terrain and tell me why you said FL has NO TERRAIN. Easy question, you said it, why can’t you please explain it.
Oh, and if you believe that Irene was a cat 1 while in NJ, show me any winds in NJ that reached CAT1 intensity. You just keep taking the word of NOAA, who basically already admitted it was not as strong as they thought which I find very odd. They are often wrong on the track, but usually fairly accurate on the intensity. Everything in those satellite loops showed a rapidly diminishing storm and the aftermath validates that.
Cat 1:
74–95 mph SUSTAINED, NOT GUSTS
Storm surge 4–5 ft
Central pressure 28.94 inHg 980 mbar
Potential damage No real damage to building structures. Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. Also, some coastal flooding and minor pier damage.
I’m not hyperventilating and by BP is just fine, always has been. YOU were the one hyperventilating and going ballistic when anyone rained on your catastrophic hurricane theory.
Don’t put all your faith in NHC and NOAA, trust me on this one. You asked on one of your posts if I had ever even seen or been through a hurricane. Let me put it this way, so many that I can’t even recall their names and had to go back and look at the dates on my photos to even determine how many. Of course I remember the really bad ones, but the others that just flooded our sun room, destroyed the landscaping, pushed about a ton of seaweed up against the back of my house and knocked the fences down, don’t even recall their names unless I look. Some of the ones that just required me to put the boat in dry dock and where water came up to the back door, but not in and didn’t do much damage, I didn’t even take photos. Sometimes we evacuate and still get them at the location we evacuated to.
I realize in PA this was probably a big deal, what you don’t realize is that most FLoridians, especially ones on the coastal areas live with this every single year from June-November, never knowing if at the end of that season your property will still be standing. Every morning when I get up the first thing I do is check the satellite photos from August-October to see if any big ones have rolled off the coast. I watch it several times a day, every day. Had Irene been headed here and looked like it did on the satellite when it first hit NC, I would have been thrilled because I would have known it would not be that bad. Water in my house? Probably if it hit at high tide and slowed down. Moving fast at low tide, probably not. Tides are insanely high today, if it had hit here today at high tide, I would not be a happy camper and it would have flooded my yard and sun room, IF it was really a strong Cat1 and maybe even if it was a tropical storm.
Also remember in the beginning, Irene was a Cat3 and all the computer models had it heading for FL a week ago. I won’t lie, when the computer models showed it would go North, I was thrilled. You take one for a change, we have more than our fair share and so does Texas and the Gulf coast, also NC.
Irene is gone, the media has been busted for ridiculous hype, NOAA admits is screwed up, they didn’t really say why they screwed up but they did, Obummer didn’t get to play the hero but he will get to slip his blue states some money and buy some more votes and life moves on.
TD12 just rolled off the African Coast, headed this way. Will it fizzle or will it be the big one? Where will this one go? Only time will tell.