Posted on 09/05/2017 6:10:45 PM PDT by jerod
When will I learn to scroll through the thread first!?
Oh, well, GMTA and all that!
——If Irma gains another 11mph wind speed, it will be the strongest hurricane or typhoon ever measured-——
I’m not sure about that...Andrew top wind speed was never fully recorded because the wind gauge (whatever you call it) was destroyed on the hurricane center building in Miami...
Basically it topped out like a speedometer then was destroyed.
Some people claim wind speeds broke the 200 mph by a long shot...
It sounds like we need to go to 11.
Thespian Nigel explains the wisdom of having one extra level when you need the extra push
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o
I lived in Florida when Andrew hit but was in the Panhandle.
It clearly did tremendous damage including destroying Homestead Air Force Base. For some reason I was thinking it was around 120 mph but I just looked it up (I was going to correct you) and sure enough, it hit 175mph.
I suspect that Irma will lose down to around 160 after going over the islands but if it gets in the Gulf it could go all the way back and maybe more.
Producer/director/exploiter David Friedman’s creation: XXX, too much sex for just one X.
“Nigel” is in the early 70s National Lampoon Lemmings (Woodstock parody) as James Taylor and Bob Dylan
Fitting that it comes up again near the 5th anniversary of my sister’s death. She loved that movie. Totally out of control laughing!
I think it’s OK. Parts of it like the volume, the ham sandwich and the getting lost and getting stuck are gold by themselves.
No, it’s partly what is “normal”. Not expecting to see 300mph so why bother? That’s all.
God I hated doing cable drawings/tables. Yuck.
Key words bolded. Dependable, accurate measurements have been available for what, less than 100 years? There could have been some half again stronger hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago.
Looks like Jupiter, Florida.
Soon to be in orbit..
I was 40 miles from landfall...
In Ft. Lauderdale...
Apes think the world revolves around us. Only been flying for less than 100 years. And satellites only for a little over 50 years. So accurate methods to measure Hurricane strength in the middle of the Atlantic have not been around for long.
“We’ve had 2 periods since the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale has been used where there were 4 category 5 hurricanes in a year.... Between Sept. 1932 and Sept. 1933, and then again in the year 2005. “
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Oh my,I was born in September,1932———so there were 4 Cat 5 hurricanes to celebrate my first year on earth. :-)
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