Posted on 09/05/2017 6:10:45 PM PDT by jerod
'Once you say catastrophic and there's near complete damage, why do you need a 6?'
You obviously need a category 6 for the climate change soothsayers. Doh!
Record-breaking and "potentially catastrophic" Hurricane Irma is smashing its way into the islands of the northeast Caribbean with sustained winds raging at up to 295 km/h.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says it's the strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin (outside the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico) and "will bring life-threatening wind, storm surge and rainfall hazards" to the northeastern Caribbean starting today.
Irma is currently listed as a Category 5 hurricane, but some articles circulating on the internet claim it could become the first to reach Category 6.
But those articles are fake.
How do we know? Because the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, which categorizes hurricanes' destructiveness based on their wind speeds, ranges from 1 to 5.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
We had 8 category 5 storms between 2003 and 2007, 6 category 5 storms between 1932 and 1938.
We've had only 2 Category 5 storms during the these decades: The 1920s, 50s, 70s and 1990s and so far in this decade we've only had 2 category 5 storms, including the present storm Irma.
What does that tell you?
Absolutely nothing, but if you're a climate change soothsayer it probably tells you that it's all about global warming.
Throughout the year variable temperatures occur on the earth... To obtain temperatures on any given day, from any given place and any given year and then extrapolate the earths future based on those temperatures is completely bogus and ridiculous.
Just as ridiculous as it is to say that because there was a hurricane last week and another one this week, global warming has arrived.
But if we can start calling these storms category 6, or 7 rather than 5 it makes it sound so much scarier and foreboding than just using the number 5.
Back in the day before NC-17, there were the unofficial XX, XXX, and XXXX movie ratings.
Yeah, well when Florida tips over and capsizes, you’ll be singing a different tune you heretic!
Cat-6 is on the political scale.
Only will it “tip Over” if enough Ignorant a holes wait around for Gubbermint “help”.
I can see where a hurricane with MSW’s of 200 mph could be classified as a Cat 6.
Something’s will always be timeless. lol
Not to mention that Category 5 Super Typhoons are a semi regular occurance in the Western Pacific basin.
I watched that for the first time ever the other week.
I was watching it, and was like “this HAS to be parody”, went online and sure enough. Spinal Tap was not a real band, until the movie came out. Never knew that. Those actors went on to have legitimate music careers.
Which is is hilarious in itself.
Anyways, if there is ever a hurricane that has 200 mph wind speeds they can add a category. I think I’m okay with that.
If Irma gains another 11mph wind speed, it will be the strongest hurricane or typhoon ever measured.
Spinal Tap this Al Bore... Climate change? Yup, you’re absolutely right, it changes all the time. Then again, I change my underwear every day too... Who cares?
We probably have measurement tools that actually track higher speeds than ever before. I say it was the limits of the older tools, not that mother nature is doing anymore than before.
And the ability to get close enough to measure the winds !
Try that in a Ship of the Line or a Galleon !
Easy, peasy. Just get your wind speed indicator in an airplane flying into the wind at 12 mph and there you have your new wind speed record.
Al Gore just turns his inside out once a week, but that's because he's more environmentally responsible than the rest of us.
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