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Irma's Coming!

Mumbles said:
I suspect it's because blizzards simply aren't as well-formed as hurricanes/tropical storms are - instead of formed eyes, expected wind patterns, and so on, it's just a bunch of precipitation and maybe wind.
(Doesn't mean people don't come up with names for blizzards on their own - my fave's still Snowtorious B.I.G.)
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Actually a blizzard is wind that moves enough snow through the air to seriously reduce visibility. It may involve precipitation as falling snow but it can also occur without precipitation by moving large volumes of snow already on the ground.
 
Steve said:
I took the liberty of doing a little research myself. It appears that Beerina is correct. Based on the linked chart the past 10 years have been boringly average in regards to Atlantic cyclonic storms. There appears to have been no major hurricanes in the US over that period.
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Why is the criteria "in the us"? Shouldn't it be from the Atlantic and/or Gulf?
Hell, katrina wasn't the most powerful hurricane that year!
 
NoahFence said:
Why is the criteria "in the us"? Shouldn't it be from the Atlantic and/or Gulf?
Hell, katrina wasn't the most powerful hurricane that year!
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Based on Beerina's "We've had a break. We've had a good 10 years or so since Katrina with almost nothing in the way of hurricanes", I assumed he was referring to the US. If I am mistaken I will retract that sentence. The chart covers all Atlantic cyclonic storms and indicates that the past decade has been nothing special compared to previous decades re the number or severity of hurricanes.

2005 seems to be a bit of an aberration for both total storms and major storms.
All years in the subsequent decade have much lower totals, with only 2010 coming close.
 
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Foolmewunz said:
I think that's what happens when you try to shoe-horn facts to fit an agenda.

Going backwards.... banner years for the Atlantic season in

2016, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008. So, yeah, other than those years it's all bit a lot of doomsayers and CCH (Climate Change Hippies).

In fact, Beerina may be confusing the "OMG can New Orleans Take Another Hit" headlines before Rita made landfall to the east. Rita, did a shed load of damage; people along the Mississippi Gulf Coast lost everything. The construction codes have had to be changed because those once-in-a-hundred years storms, well, they do happen and it turns out that building cracker boxes two hundred yards off the shore line isn't such a good idea.

There were two additional Cat. 5 hurricanes after Katrina. They didn't devastate a major metropolis so it's easy to say "Oh pshaw, another one that didn't hit!" Tell that to the folks in Gulfport or the Yucatan, though.
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Matthew killed 47 people and did ten billion worth of damage in the U.S. alone. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina were all declared Federal Disaster Areas.

That was less than a year ago. Hard to remember that far back, I guess.

Just
 
Nobody has heard anything at all from Barbuda since the hurricane hit 2-4 hours ago.

Storm surge 40 ft - highest elevation 32 ft. Police reported their station was being destroyed.

Complete silence.

1,600 live there. So worrying.
 
Steve said:
Based on Beerina's "We've had a break. We've had a good 10 years or so since Katrina with almost nothing in the way of hurricanes", I assumed he was referring to the US. If I am mistaken I will retract that sentence. The chart covers all Atlantic cyclonic storms and indicates that the past decade has been nothing special compared to previous decades re the number or severity of hurricanes.

2005 seems to be a bit of an aberration for both total storms and major storms.
All years in the subsequent decade have much lower totals, with only 2010 coming close.
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Chris Landsea is known to be problematic when it comes to questions of climate.

http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/LandseaResignationLetterFromIPCC.htm
 
IIRC, after Katrina the doomsayers were forecastin 6 of those storms per year, the southern states are DOOMED I tell you! DOOMED!
 
casebro said:
IIRC, after Katrina the doomsayers were forecastin 6 of those storms per year, the southern states are DOOMED I tell you! DOOMED!
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Forget the doomsayers. What did the actual experts say?

It's never a good idea to argue against a theory or philosophy by singling out the extremists and idiots who happen to support it.
 
JoeBentley said:
Yeah although a 3-4 hour drive with our cranky old Calico in her cat carrier loudly vocalizing her disapproval the entire time and I might turn around and drive headfirst into the eyewall.
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I hear you. I have a half bengal that doesn't even sound like a cat when she gets upset. She makes a weird warbling sound that stops people dead in their tracks if you happen to stop for gas. They start circling your car looking for signs of a trapped human in the trunk.
 
casebro said:
IIRC, after Katrina the doomsayers were forecastin 6 of those storms per year, the southern states are DOOMED I tell you! DOOMED!
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Actually, the experts are calling for more severe storms. Whether that's due to Global Warming or not is not addressed. They've been borne out by the higher number of Cat. 4 and 5 storms.

The "doomsayers" as you call them, are the television stations that are trying to sell soap powder. The producers call in the people who will give them the best spin(s) on the story(ies). If one station has a staid sciencey type who cites the data and says that there's going to be high wind and rain and the other station has a guy who says that "It's got the potential to be the most devastating thing since records were first kept! OMG Frogs, Locusts, Boils!", that latter station gets the ratings points and sells the most Fab.
 
Jodie said:
I don't understand why they give these hurricanes such common names. If you called this one Immobulus Death 2017, rather than Irma, that might be a better name that reflects the hurricanes true danger.
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Hurricane Megatron would be scarier than Hurricane Cecil, I do admit.
 
Rush Limbaugh seems pretty sure that Irma's just fake news, nothing much to worry about. Alex Jones, on the other hand, thinks it's a weapon, probably created by the Deep State. Say...didn't that star Linda Lovelace?
 
Jodie said:
I hear you. I have a half bengal that doesn't even sound like a cat when she gets upset. She makes a weird warbling sound that stops people dead in their tracks if you happen to stop for gas. They start circling your car looking for signs of a trapped human in the trunk.
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Thanks, JoeBentley and Jodie! I needed a good laugh!

Hope everyone in the threatened areas stays safe...preferably by going somewhere OUTSIDE the threatened areas!
 
Now 12 - 18 hours since being in the eye of the hurricance and STILL no communication at all from anybody in Barbuda. Yes, networks are down, but ham radio can run on battery power.

We've had pictures from St Maartens (St Martins) and from St Bart's (St Bartelmy) which were similar small islands devastated by the winds.

The silence from Barbuda is kind of eerie.
 
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