gently caress You And Diebold posted:

wikipedia has

to say. The categories use wind speed but the categories themselves are based on expected damage to buildings based on that wind speed. Which, as pointed out above, doesnt take storm sturge or other factors into consideration

Jose posted:

hurricane helene

Jose posted:

hurricane helene

Jose posted:

hurricane helene

Vox Nihili posted:

Even a pretty big category 5 wouldn't knock down skyscrapers or anything.

1994 Toyota Celica posted:

nature itself is going to teabag charleston

Duscat posted:

THERE'S NO HURRICANE ABOVE A CAT5 i scream as i am lofted into the stratosphere

Crusader posted:

Lastgirl posted:

its really about ethics to muh property damage

cool that there's scientific basis revolving around that instead of just actually labeling it for wind speed and surge

Lastgirl posted:

*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

Jose posted:

hurricane helene

Lastgirl posted:

[Quake Announcer Voice over the Weather Channel Broadcast:] Category Six!

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

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

Al! posted:

final destination no items jose only

Isizzlehorn posted:

*hurricane drops 5mph in wind strength but grows in size by 100's of miles*

THANK YOU LORD PRESIDENT TRUMP

Isizzlehorn posted:

*hurricane drops 5mph in wind strength but grows in size by 100's of miles*

THANK YOU LORD PRESIDENT TRUMP

anime was right posted:

i hate to say it but we're gonna have to take over some garbage rear end state like illinois to survive

quote:

although the maximum winds are expected to weaken a little more,
florence is still expected to remain a dangerous major hurricane as
it approaches the coast. the threat to life from storm surge and
rainfall will not diminish, and these impacts will cover a large
area regardless of exactly where the center of florence moves.

Crusader posted:

Crusader posted:

yeah the energy the storm is bringing to bear has actually increased - the integrated kinetic energy measurement is like 100 terajoules right now i think

twoday posted:

It’s like if you’re standing in the road and a car is about to crash into you at 70 miles an hour, but then it slows down to 65 and morphs into a hummer

twoday posted:

It’s like if you’re standing in the road and a car is about to crash into you at 70 miles an hour, but then it slows down to 65 and morphs into a hummer

twoday posted:

It’s like if you’re standing in the road and a car is about to crash into you at 70 miles an hour, but then it slows down to 65 and morphs into a hummer

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Leave a note on the talk page calling them out so your edit can't get unceremoniously wiped and forgotten

quote:

URGENT — WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28, 2005

...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH... RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!

Crusader posted:

the katrina warning from the weather service is still amazing over a decade later

twoday posted:

It’s like if you’re standing in the road and a car is about to crash into you at 70 miles an hour, but then it slows down to 65 and morphs into a hummer and you decide to salute and scream TRUMP instead of dodging

Crusader posted:

the katrina warning from the weather service is still amazing over a decade later

The Glumslinger posted:

Now post the fake one

Duscat posted:

lol why don't you go fly a confederate flag about it