Posted on 09/14/2018 9:41:53 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
From a writer at WattsUpWithThat:
National Data Buoy Center shows Florence passing over Johnny Mercer Pier, station JMPN7. The surface anemometer height for that station is 15 meters above sea level. Winds speeds recorded show the eyewall and eye passing directly the station. Maximum sustained winds on the leading edge of the storm were 52 knots at 5.36 AM, followed by the eye with (its typically) low winds at 7am, followed by the trailing eyewall winds of 56 knots at 8am. https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=jmpn7
Several NDBC stations in the region, both on the shore and offshore, confirm that Florence never produced sustained winds reaching hurricane threshold, which is 64 knots. Recorded winds using anemometers at 10 meters above the local site are part of the definition of the Saffir-Simpson scale. Actual heights of anemometers may be at different heights above the surface, with higher instruments showing higher winds. For example, the offshore NDBC station 41037 at Wrightsville Beach records maximum sustained winds of 50 knots with anemometer height of 3 meters.\ The Cape Lookout station CLKN7 anemometer height is 16 meters, and is located well to the North of the storm center on a dune that seems to produce a Bernoulli effect for winds originating offshore. That anemometer shows sustained winds reaching 71 knots. But the nearby station BFTN7 at Beaufort, NC showing only 51 knots hours later. All other surface stations are recording sustained winds in the 50 knot range, with only the Cape Lookout station as an outlier.
When it was a roaring Cat 4 Hurricane, it was cataclysmic, it was genocidal, and it was Trump’s fault.
Now that the winds are down to a mere zephyr of 56 knots, we discover that, Lo and Behold, Trump had nothing to do with it.
Florence. The short form of that is Flo. Flo is the spokesperson for Progressive Insurance. Therefore, progressives are complicit in the hurricane.
yep, count on it.
it is kinda like Schadenfreude, only twisted.
the left is wishing ill on people, in order to pin blame on Trump, a la Katrina.
they are wishing death and destruction on American citizens..for political gain. and they would enjoy it, breathlessly chanting it over and over.
sick
Flo will always be at Mel’s Diner for me.
I disregard the spin off.
Dangerous - Yes, to the morons who didn't evacuate and are now on their rooftops waiting to be rescued, and the people who have to save their asses.
Then there will be the idiots who will die trying to drive their cars across 10 feet water.
Isaac is forecast to gradually weaken over the next few days
and could degenerate into a tropical wave at any time.
they saw the political damage that Katrina did to Bush...and how Bush cowered and “apoligized”, like it was his fault...they think they can attack Trump the same way.
its no 42 inches....as of 3:00 pm....official rain total for Morehead City..15 inches tops...from what iv’e seen,everything seems to be draining off just fine....the media did get their hoped for fatalities...3 people have died..now they can scream “DEADLY” hurricane florence...
“. . . I was able to grab a beer, open the door and let her in.”
Ya got me there, it was funny.
I don’t think there’s any doubt this is the most overhyped hurricane of all time. Maybe the most overhyped weather event.
lol!!!!
Haha!!! Yes I lol’ed... wife heard me and came downstairs to see what was so funny; I read the story to her and she lol’ed too! Nice job! :-)
Freeper Marines might enjoy...
“They didn’t let the Marines evacuate Lejeune because they knew they would enjoy it”
https://twitter.com/TerminalLance
(some short vids and comments)
They might do mass riots to ensure the casualties.
Should Trump then get the credit for the downgrading for the Storm, when everybody was crying it was going to make landfall as a Cat 6?
Or perhaps drown a few survivors.
Beautiful graphics of near-live worldwide winds.
(Bet there were many thousand sea captains that would have paid their ship’s weight in doubloons for those wind images a few hundred years ago.)
Sorry to here about the fatalities.
It may be three, but the media and mayor of Puerto Rico will be screaming three...THOUSAND.
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