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Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
a hurricane with a stripper name wiping out Florida would be pretty awesome though. bonus if the panhandle got in on the action.

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Gibbering
May 24, 2014

:catdrugs:
So, Hurricane Ophelia's heading towards Ireland.

They have Jose's scent. It's a little off, but give the hurricanes time.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Gibbering posted:

So, Hurricane Ophelia's heading towards Ireland.

I didn't even know that could happen lol.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

akadajet posted:

I didn't even know that could happen lol.

it's incredibly rare

2017 is one hell of a year

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

akadajet posted:

I didn't even know that could happen lol.

last time it happened was 1961 lol

though this one might weaken to a TS before it lands

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators


Need an image of bugs and daffy doing hurricane season / typhoon season.

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
how well-prepared is North Korea's infrastructure for a hurricane

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

Ein cooler Typ posted:

how well-prepared is North Korea's infrastructure for a hurricane

No wind could ever topple Juche mindset.

Gibbering
May 24, 2014

:catdrugs:
Ophelia's now a Cat 3. Bets on it still being a hurricane when it hits Ireland?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Gibbering posted:

Ophelia's now a Cat 3. Bets on it still being a hurricane when it hits Ireland?

it’ll probably be an extratropical cyclone with hurricane strength winds

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/919283674046181376

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro



Rad, 60mph plus winds when it hits north Scotland. And the thing is going to all the bother of coming to the eastern side of the Atlantic without aiming directly for Jose. What trash.

On the plus side, sounds like it's going to be a fair bit weaker than the storm commonly known as Hurricane Bawbag, the last strong storm to hit these parts

forkboy84 has issued a correction as of 21:58 on Oct 14, 2017

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators

hobbesmaster posted:

it’ll probably be an extratropical cyclone with hurricane strength winds

Yeah but I'm rooting for it to be warm-core at landfall just for the extra surrealness points

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators
Euro has 110mph gusts across ireland when it hits though lmfao

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

forkboy84 posted:

Rad, 60mph plus winds when it hits north Scotland. And the thing is going to all the bother of coming to the eastern side of the Atlantic without aiming directly for Jose. What trash.

On the plus side, sounds like it's going to be a fair bit weaker than the storm commonly known as Hurricane Bawbag, the last strong storm to hit these parts

Are 60 mph winds unusual for northern Scotland?

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Bizarrely Newfoundland's Avalon peninsula had cat 2 Hurricane force winds in March. Gusts up to 140 km/h (87 mph). Knocked power out for a few hours, wrecked many signs, knocked out a lot of traffic signals.

Fortunately this is only slightly above what typical Newfoundland winter is like, so otherwise it wasn't a big problem

TraderStav
May 19, 2006

It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down
I'm betting Jose has plans to visit relatives in Ireland in this week.

the hurricane knows

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

https://twitter.com/splillo/status/919200325818507264

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
you cant escape jose

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

logikv9 posted:

you cant escape jose
Jose should consider getting a job with the US government, just imagine how useful a completely inconspicuous hurricane beacon would be.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

TraderStav posted:

I'm betting Jose has plans to visit relatives in Ireland in this week.

the hurricane knows

My sister lives in Northern Ireland but the bride and groom live in Ireland

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Jose should consider getting a job with the US government, just imagine how useful a completely inconspicuous hurricane beacon would be.

I'm the dude in a hotel room desperately pinning photos of an unknown Englishman spotted in every major hurricane landfall to a board and linking them with string

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Ein cooler Typ posted:

North Korea's infrastructure

????

?????????

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
The sky is a fun colour here

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

some communists from florida have been distributing supplies in puerto rico for the last week or so and everything they're reporting back is horrifying. it's post-apocalyptic down there. huge chunks of the country have been completely abandoned

also the place they were staying was raided by law enforcement in the middle of the night after they posted a picture of themselves in front of some supplies with a raised fist. the various occupying forces there are terrified of the people rising up against them, but not enough to feed them

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
Cant be assed to have cops help recover, but can send them on a red scare during the night. :911:

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

the bitcoin of weed posted:

the various occupying forces there are terrified of the people rising up against them, but not enough to feed them

you wanna keep them at the ends of the Fed <--> Hungry enough to fight <--> Too hungry to fight continuum

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
So the sky turned orange in the Netherlands. Apparently there is a sandstorm?

https://twitter.com/Nor_vell/status/920218066314817536

https://twitter.com/vanjar_/status/920230911362310149

https://twitter.com/Bosw8erSotbi/status/920187343520268289

Everything is sepia, it's freaking me out

Meanwhile, in Ireland:

https://twitter.com/FelicityMorse/status/920188916313010176

twoday has issued a correction as of 14:27 on Oct 17, 2017

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016


Stockholm this morning

Only slightly more dreary than usual for Scandinavia this time of year.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/921134864317014017

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators
Typhoon Lan has blown the gently caress up and looks like it's at or near super typhoon strength now

http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate....&s=rammb-slider

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Do typhoons use the same strength scale as hurricanes, or do they just come in sizes like coffee

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators

Nebakenezzer posted:

Do typhoons use the same strength scale as hurricanes, or do they just come in sizes like coffee

They use a wind-based scale for strength like the Saffir-Simpson scale but it has different boundaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_scales#Western_Pacific

Most of us in the Atlantic Basin / EPAC region just gauge them by Saffir-Simpson strength though.

A confounding factor is that WPAC mean sea level pressure is different than the Atlantic Basin pressure, so the windspeed to pressure relationship is different. It's why satellite estimates of hurricane strength will yield lower pressure estimates in WPAC than in the Atlantic.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

is super typhoon the scientific name

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators

the bitcoin of weed posted:

is super typhoon the scientific name

Yes http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/A3.html

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

that owns

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
drat super typhoon is equivalent to a cat 5, but the structure of the storm is loving enormous as well.

RIP Japan, RIP goon expats.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
Analysis at 18 UTC, 20 October (JTWC Warning #22)

Location: N20.7 E130.7

Moving: NNE at 7 mph

Max 1-min sustained: 150 mph (▲ 35 mph)

Max wind gust: 185 mph (▲ 40 mph)

Lan is now a Super Typhoon

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
https://weather.us/satellite/1290-e-213-n/satellite-hd-10min.html#play8

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the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

'Super Typhoon' Lan sounds like a shonen character, like he'd be a one piece villain

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