Yes, they're often impassioned when they're deadly serious, emphasis on the deadly, about the impact of the weather. They generally write with more humanity than might be expected of any other service — but they also so often bear awful news that is so often summarily ignored, that I can't fault them for their impassioned pleas to 'please, pay attention to us, it will prevent your avoidable deaths'.
Their wind and storm predictions are really accurate, I use them every time I go on a mountain hike. I think windguru is still a bit better for sailing.
I don't think massive is a good word for it. The supporting systems around it are not of the usual size for a storm of this intensity. It's easy to miss it on the wind map but then, all of a sudden, there are 75kt winds right around Acapulco.
With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said Thursday.
Andra J. Garner, Observed increases in North Atlantic tropical cyclone peak intensification rates
Aint that the issue. As the weather becomes more chaotic, the models become less useful. An observation that has caused me a lot of thoughts as we slide into our climate changes we've made this century.
Greetings from a warm and balmy late October in Michigan.
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 55.8 ms ] thread> A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico this evening with rapidly intensifying Otis approaching the coastline.
[1] https://www.windy.com/-Satellite-satellite?satellite,18.937,...
Nifty.
https://www.windy.com/?17.049,-98.761,5
Let me tell you about PSPSes and living on generator for weeks at a time for 4-5x per summer. Home insurance tripled. Bounced to SW TX after 45 years.
Hurricanes are now twice as likely to zip from minor to whopper than decades ago, study says
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-hurricanes-minor-whopper-decad...
Andra J. Garner, Observed increases in North Atlantic tropical cyclone peak intensification ratesScientific Reports (2023).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42669-y.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42669-y
Quite a reminder about our forecasting capabilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Lee_(2023)
Greetings from a warm and balmy late October in Michigan.