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how fast does the wind have to be going to sandblast your skin off your bones
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Duscat posted:gonna run out of names in about 10 years with that rule we'll just let those kids in a montana elementary school come up with more if that happens 
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Sep 12, 2018 22:39
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Vox Nihili posted:Japanese Meteorological Agency predicts Mangkhut's winds will reach 165 knots tomorrow (190 mph). Mangkhut's terrible eye makes Florence look like a little babby Atlantic storm 
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Sep 12, 2018 22:39
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lol looks like Helene is gonna gently caress off into the UK, jose is never safe
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Sep 12, 2018 22:40
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:huh? ACE employs almost all civilians i was just lolling at a red state whining that the federal government didn't do enough to protect them, but i guess this is not really the time and place for it
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Sep 12, 2018 22:40
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imagine getting drowned in your attic by hurricane skylar
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Sep 12, 2018 22:41
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Al! posted:how fast does the wind have to be going to sandblast your skin off your bones it wouldn't blast skin off at 500 mph but you wouldn't ever be able to be upright Cat 7 hurricanes would have enough wind power to create tornadoes inside it so inshallah thats our future
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Sep 12, 2018 22:42
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Duscat posted:i was just lolling at a red state whining that the federal government didn't do enough to protect them, but i guess this is not really the time and place for it oh lol no the army corp of engineers straightup built poo poo wrong and then tried to hide it during the investigation afterward like they knowingly undermined floodwall structures and built to incorrectly low heights and whatnot, poo poo was crazy but yeah afterward congress just absolutely dumped money into the new floodworks because whoops new orleans is kind of an important port
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Sep 12, 2018 22:43
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is anything above Cat 5 even defined as far as wind speed, and is it possible or is there kind of like a cap on the maximum power a hurricane can get
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Sep 12, 2018 22:46
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cat 5 is open-ended because when you get wind that fast it causes total structural failure there's no upper limit because that's not the point basically only concrete structures have a chance against it, and even then the exposure level of the structure is meaningful
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Sep 12, 2018 22:47
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[tim allenishly] MORE POWER ooooga ooooga oooga
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Sep 12, 2018 22:48
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well if we dont stop global warming, hurricanes sure as gently caress will stop us
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Sep 12, 2018 22:49
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anime was right posted:well if we dont stop global warming, hurricanes sure as gently caress will stop us just slowly picking off one coastal state after another
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Sep 12, 2018 22:49
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the bitcoin of weed posted:lol looks like Helene is gonna gently caress off into the UK, jose is never safe lol this was insanely rare and is now happening 2 years in a row if anyone is feeling nostalgic here is my mate being interviewed https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/miami-visitors-ride-irma-balconies-flood-windows-crack-49746938
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Sep 12, 2018 22:50
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eonwe posted:is anything above Cat 5 even defined as far as wind speed, and is it possible or is there kind of like a cap on the maximum power a hurricane can get Cat 5 is the highest ever recorded and they were infrequent, but we are seeing them frequently so the benchmark is if they get past 200mph winds, then they have to label it as a cat 6 at that point
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Sep 12, 2018 22:51
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eonwe posted:is anything above Cat 5 even defined as far as wind speed, and is it possible or is there kind of like a cap on the maximum power a hurricane can get Once the winds get to cat 5 there's not much we can build that won't get blown apart, so there's really no reason for a higher category except to make more powerful hurricanes sound scarier.
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Sep 12, 2018 22:51
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Grondoth posted:Once the winds get to cat 5 there's not much we can build that won't get blown apart, so there's really no reason for a higher category except to make more powerful hurricanes sound scarier. Even a pretty big category 5 wouldn't knock down skyscrapers or anything.
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Sep 12, 2018 22:53
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eonwe posted:is anything above Cat 5 even defined as far as wind speed, and is it possible or is there kind of like a cap on the maximum power a hurricane can get there's a cap based on how hot oceans can get... there's theoretically hurricanes that could throw poo poo into the stratosphere and scour the earth, but you need the boiling water like you can only get from an asteroid impact to drive it
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Sep 12, 2018 22:54
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Vox Nihili posted:Even a pretty big category 5 wouldn't knock down skyscrapers or anything. no but it'll shred all the windows which is a problem when the entire building's envelope is made of glass
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Sep 12, 2018 22:54
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Lastgirl posted:Cat 5 is the highest ever recorded and they were infrequent, but we are seeing them frequently so the benchmark is if they get past 200mph winds, then they have to label it as a cat 6 at that point IIRC hurricane categories are like tornado ratings in that they measure expected damage to human made structures, cat 5 is essentially total destruction so in that sense cat 6 doesnt make sense, there is no further level of destruction
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Sep 12, 2018 22:55
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:IIRC hurricane categories are like tornado ratings in that they measure expected damage to human made structures, cat 5 is essentially total destruction so in that sense cat 6 doesnt make sense, there is no further level of destruction They literally only measure wind speed and not storm surge or any another factor, so it’s not really a good system
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Sep 12, 2018 22:57
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Crusader posted:there's a cap based on how hot oceans can get... there's theoretically hurricanes that could throw poo poo into the stratosphere and scour the earth, but you need the boiling water like you can only get from an asteroid impact to drive it asteroids impact vaporize water before it even makes contact so it'd be pretty wicked sick if the surrounding area created huge hurricane force winds that part the skies along with the tidal surge that wipes out most life and then the remainder chokes on earth dust 
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Sep 12, 2018 22:57
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Aren't hurricanes categorized by how destructive they are and not based in wind speed
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Sep 12, 2018 22:57
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here's what 100mph wind did to a building in miami during hurricane wilma they're not ideal storm shelters
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Sep 12, 2018 22:58
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Vox Nihili posted:Mangkhut's terrible eye makes Florence look like a little babby Atlantic storm nightmare fuel
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Sep 12, 2018 22:58
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twoday posted:They literally only measure wind speed and not storm surge or any another factor, so it’s not really a good system thats what they categorize it on, wind speed so if its above 200 mph i guess they just keep it at cat 5 when it would essentially be another category. 200 is the cap for the system
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Sep 12, 2018 22:59
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Phi230 posted:Aren't hurricanes categorized by how destructive they are and not based in wind speed lol nope, just wind speed, that’s why a lot of people die when a hurricane gets downgraded. They pay attention to the category thinking that this is the case, but it ignores most factors actually. You can watch this happening right now in real time.
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Sep 12, 2018 22:59
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Crusader posted:you need the boiling water like you can only get from an asteroid impact to drive it You heard the man, people, let's get to work
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Sep 12, 2018 22:59
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boiling the oceans to own humanity
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Lastgirl posted:Cat 5 is the highest ever recorded and they were infrequent, but we are seeing them frequently so the benchmark is if they get past 200mph winds, then they have to label it as a cat 6 at that point The scale is based on expected wind damage to structures, but then some 'spergist on wikipedia defined it on wave and wind speed  Based on recent small changes (to keep rounding from reclassifying storms) I think they may just scale up the definitions of the categories e: VV RUDE Nebakenezzer has issued a correction as of 23:06 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:here's what 100mph wind did to a building in miami during hurricane wilma covering a building with nothing but huge fuckoff windows in a hurricane-prone area 
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Sep 12, 2018 23:02
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Nebakenezzer posted:The scale is based on expected wind damage to structures, but then some 'spergist on wikipedia defined it on wave and wind speed *shuffles scientific papers scattered across the room, unable to keep tabs on the whole thing* uhhh gently caress it, just label it as Hypercane, then Ultracane, then Megacane, or was it the other way around
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Sep 12, 2018 23:03
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THERE'S NO HURRICANE ABOVE A CAT5 i scream as i am lofted into the stratosphere
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wikipedia has quote:According to Robert Simpson, there are no reasons for a Category 6 on the Saffir–Simpson Scale because it is designed to measure the potential damage of a hurricane to human-made structures. Simpson stated that "... when you get up into winds in excess of 155 mph (249 km/h) you have enough damage if that extreme wind sustains itself for as much as six seconds on a building it’s going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it's engineered."[3]
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hurricane helene
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twoday posted:lol nope, just wind speed, that’s why a lot of people die when a hurricane gets downgraded. They pay attention to the category thinking that this is the case, but it ignores most factors actually. You can watch this happening right now in real time. they use wind speed because that's what buildings are designed to withstand and the range of wind speeds for each category is based on expected damage rainfall and storm surge are too site-specific to be effective for a scale like that but there are proposed alternative scales that take them into account, though they haven't been adopted because they're not really useful to the general public
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nature itself is going to teabag charleston
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Jose posted:hurricane helene eat it Jose!
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alexa send a tweet, current altitude: 8000 feet, this is still a cat five because that's the highest category there is, send
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