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Predictions & Preparations for the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season
gCaptain ^ | May 13, 2024

Posted on 05/15/2024 7:20:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower

As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, forecasts and scientific analyses predict a notably active period, potentially setting new records for storm frequency and intensity. This year’s hurricane outlook is influenced by a variety of climatic factors, with the potential to significantly impact the U.S. coastline and beyond.

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This year, however, meteorology experts are predicting a surge in activity.


They say this every year. When it doesn't happen they never issua a retraction.

1 posted on 05/15/2024 7:20:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Sounds like a lot of “potential.”


2 posted on 05/15/2024 7:23:35 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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Is the central part of Florida safe? I’m thinking Winter Haven and the Villages. Thanks.


3 posted on 05/15/2024 7:26:08 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Your biggest concern about The Villages would be STDs......and that’s not a joke.


4 posted on 05/15/2024 7:30:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: artichokegrower
I'm pretty sure that only terrestrial wind turbines fail. After all, the ocean environment is a LOT more benign than the terrestrial environment. There will be no ocean / offshore wind turbine failures in hurricanes. Right?


5 posted on 05/15/2024 7:30:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: artichokegrower

Anyone remember last year’s hysterical cries that “the ocean is boiling”? Where were the back-to-back Category 5’s?


6 posted on 05/15/2024 7:31:27 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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"Given the predictions for an unusually active 2024 hurricane season, there arises a valid concern: Will forecasters run out of names?"

Some people are just not happy unless they have something to worry about.

7 posted on 05/15/2024 7:34:32 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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Last year the weather “experts” predicted hurricane Ian would hit the Tampa area almost right up until landfall....as it turned out, it made landfall at Fort Meyers.....that’s a 100 mile miss in they’re prediction.

How many people in Lee county failed to prepare as well as they should have because of that error I wonder, and whatever negative impact that mistake had will never be known.


8 posted on 05/15/2024 7:36:37 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

From storm surge probably. Winds? Maybe not. Ya gotta watch out for those Cat 20 storms.


9 posted on 05/15/2024 7:39:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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I mind the hype, but realize the situation. Local news and radio always provide the most important and accurate coverage of storms, not TWC or national news.

Even though I live at the beach, I'm always concerned about the wind, not the dreaded weather channel storm surge.

Andrew was a bad ass storm that could have destroyed SoFla if it hit further north and was moving slower. Imagine 24 hours of this:


10 posted on 05/15/2024 7:45:08 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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I watch the weather channel for comic relief and nothing else......their whole business model is based on breathlessly keeping people constantly on edge......sad part is there’s a whole lot of weak minded people believing every word.


11 posted on 05/15/2024 7:47:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: PUGACHEV

Joe
Jill
James
Hunter

four more names to represent devastation


12 posted on 05/15/2024 7:49:30 AM PDT by Waverunner
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I view the Weather Channel as Fear Porn. I sat her a couple of years ago with my wife’s brother who came down here to get a away from the potential strike of a hurricane in Jacksonville. The weather channel made it look like the J’ville area was getting destroyed. When he got home he had a couple of 1” limbs down in his yard.


13 posted on 05/15/2024 7:55:03 AM PDT by wbslws
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To: Waverunner

What about Bathouse Barry?


14 posted on 05/15/2024 7:56:06 AM PDT by wbslws
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To: artichokegrower

Don’t their predictions fall into the range of Punxsutawney Phil in terms of their overall accuracy?


15 posted on 05/15/2024 7:56:22 AM PDT by Dan C (We are what we repeatedly do - excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. Aristotle)
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To: V_TWIN

It’s a 20-year-old joke. And not true anymore...

It happens to be the fastest growing community in the fastest growing State(or close) in the country.

No, I don’t live there but I know people who do and they love it.


16 posted on 05/15/2024 8:14:02 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: V_TWIN

“The Villages” where half of the inhabitants are swingers and the other half want to be...

So I’ve heard..(Note: I live in Florida but NOT in the villages..)


17 posted on 05/15/2024 8:29:30 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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The problem is, most of ‘em down there are yankees


18 posted on 05/15/2024 8:37:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

That’s not a joke because it’s not funny and it was based on only one person’s small investigation several years ago. That it’s still brought up as a general fact is a reminder of how biased our media is.


19 posted on 05/15/2024 9:11:08 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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“potentially setting new records for storm frequency and intensity”

And just as potentially NOT!!!


20 posted on 05/15/2024 9:40:02 AM PDT by Wuli
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