Peanut Butler posted:

also yeah plains tornadoes g e n e r a l l y dont hit big population centers- people have been settling in the calmer storm zones of the plains for thousands of years, and when europeans got here they generally stuck to the same population centers because, hey, look at all these ancient orchards and native folks telling us 'oh yeah deffo stay here during tornado season'. Like there are all kinds of places in the plains with good soil and access to fresh water, but almost no one lives there because the weather gets disastrously catastrophic every 5-10 years or so

that said, if you're in the rural plains more than an hour from even a town of 100k, look tf out, but they already know that

e: the thing about settlements being in zones where tornadoes are less statistically likely to happen is prolly nationwide, tho that might change if weather patterns change- sprawl is changing that a lil bit on the edges of the KC metro, as well

PostNouveau posted:

The pumping system in New Orleans was like this state of the art technological marvel ... in 1900.

It's so loving old that it uses the wrong kind of electricity. 25 cycle instead of the standard 60 cycle. So they have to have a bunch of ancient power generators that no one makes parts for anymore so they have to machine parts themselves if anything breaks.

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1139234563400634368
cool

twoday posted:

And it appears to be caused by the thread title, Greenland:

Kassad posted:

Wikipedia says this:


But I also looked at the French version of the article and it quotes a newspaper talking about 15 deaths in France alone. It's a far cry from the 15,000 dead during the 2003 heatwave, either way.

PostNouveau posted:

It ain't even a depression yet.

The Mississippi has been at flood stage for 8 months and we had our third "100 year rain" in the last 2 years this morning, which was unrelated to the system developing in the Gulf.

SKULL.GIF posted:

I guess I probably should wait until October or something to visit my dad in Florida eh

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

gently caress off

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/climate/seawalls-cities-cost-climate-change.html


we spend $600 billion per year on the military. providing protection for cities from flooding is not some sort of impossibility we need to abandon entire cities over.

oystertoadfish posted:

you've inspired me to post the content i posted in the SAL weather thread

it's from the tour de france, which happens in july as you might notice. they had to call off half a stage due to snow and hail and landslide

quotes are from the SAS tour de france thread



thats some weather content, right there

Kassad posted:

It's typical to have colder, stormy weather coming up on the tail of a heatwave. It's passing over France now and it's going to move eastward over the rest of Europe. And storms in the Alps gently caress poo poo up.

Strep Vote posted:

F is best for temperature because at both extremes of the neat 0-100 degree mark is where you start to want to die, so it's just a percentage scale in most people's minds.

sorry that this makes more sense than celcius

Peanut Butler posted:

lol you're not from a place where it gets cold enough to wish for death

0-100 F works p good because that's about one years range of temperatures here

Shima Honnou posted:

Good news about the future of everywhere then.

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

Euro track would also allow it to go back out into the Gulf and presumably power back up to wipe another panhandle city off the map

angerbeet posted:

Never repeat a grift:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago#Hurricane_insurance_claim

golden bubble posted:

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://i.imgur.com/I5EOWsJ.gifv

Agean90 posted:

Does anyone have that fake nws report that ends with IVAN IS COMEING IVAN IS COMEING or whatever hurricane it was for

quote:

HURRICANE IKE FINAL ADVISORY NUMBER 666
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
0200 AM SUN SEP 14 2008

A MASSIVE HURRICANE, NEY, A TITANIC BLACK MASS OF DESTRUCTION, BORN OF THE COLD, EVIL WOMB OF MOTHER NATURE, WILL RENDER MUCH OF COASTAL AND INLAND TEXAS A BARREN WASTELAND. IKE IS COMING.

SUCH IS THE POWER OF THIS STORM, IF INDEED, ANYTHING DISPENSING THIS AMOUNT OF HUMAN SUFFERING CAN BE CALLED A STORM.

THE STORM SURGE, ONCE PREDICTED AT 17 FEET, WILL NOW REACH UNHEARD OF HEIGHTS. IF WILL BE AS IF THE OCEAN ITSELF HAS VACATED ITS VAST PRISON, SHAKING LOOSE ITS CHAINS, AND LAYING ITSELF PRONE ATOP THE CITIES OF MAN. THE LAST VESTIGES OF ITS BONDAGE SINKING ALL THAT LIES IN ITS PATH.

ALL STRUCTURES WITHIN A 100 MILE RADIUS WILL SUFFER DEVASTATING EFFECTS. WOOD WILL SPLINTER, CONCRETE WILL BECOME DUST. THE FOUNDATIONS WILL BE THE STARK REMNANTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN THESE AREAS. TREES WILL BECOME UPROOTED AND CARRIED MILES BY WINDS THAT WILL BLAST THE VERY SKIN FROM ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO REMAIN OUTSIDE. BUT THEY WILL BE THE LUCKY ONES...THE FIRST TO DIE. FOR A MUCH GREATER MISERY AWAITS THOSE THAT SURVIVE.

AMIDST THIS MIRE OF CARNAGE, THE FEW SURVIVORS WILL WALLOW IN A SOUP OF DEATH AND DESPAIR, AS THEY FACE GRIM ODDS. FEW STRUCTURES WILL EXIST, AND FOOD AND WATER WILL BE MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD. AS CORPSES OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS ROT, DYSENTERY AND MALARIA WILL BEGIN THEIR MACABRE DANCE AMONG THOSE REMAINING AND MANY WILL BE FORCED TO CONSUME ONE ANOTHER TO LIVE ONE FINAL DAY.

ENTIRE GENERATIONS WILL PERISH, AND THE HURRICANE WILL CREEP INTO LEGEND. IT WILL BE A SIN TO EVEN CALL ITS NAME ALOUD, THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THIS EVENT BEING SPOKEN OF IN HUSHED TONES, AND REVERED BY THOSE WHO SEE IT AS JUDGMENT. IKE IS HERE. IKE IS HERE. IKE IS HERE. IKE IS HERE. IKE IS H

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

hopefully it missed florida, circles around the atlantic for a few months, and slams right into the UK on no deal brexit day

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/HeatherZWeather/status/1168675605837221889

The Glumslinger posted:

The wind blows the wrong way and water is way colder than the Atlantic

Spergin Morlock posted:

because the earth isn't spinning in the opposite direction.

oystertoadfish posted:

if you still care, here's an la times article about when hurricanes and tropical storms have come close. a tropical storm hit orange county in 1939

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-21/hurricanes-here-the-cordonazo-that-lashed-los-angeles



in this map from the article you can just baaaarely see a few reaching up toward southern california

but i think all of these (reaching socal) are tropical storms, not even category 1, so nothing compared to what happens elsewhere

quote:

Unlike the eastern U.S., where the warm Gulf Stream flows northward along the Atlantic Coast, the California Current carries cool water southward along the West Coast. It literally throws cold water in the face of any tropical cyclones approaching the California coast and the coast of northern Baja California.

In addition, the upper-level winds known as steering currents tend to carry storms to the west and northwest, out into the Pacific and away from California. At lower levels of the atmosphere off the California coast, prevailing winds are northwesterly, creating vertical wind shear that rips hurricanes apart. These northwesterly winds near the surface also promote upwelling, pulling cool water from the deep and pushing warmer coastal water offshore, creating a less-hospitable environment for tropical cyclones.

Downward motion in the atmosphere off the coast of Southern California, as opposed to upward motion vital to the formation of thunderstorms, also discourages formation or continuation of cyclones. 

Harik posted:

a couple days back some posters were talking about a dystopia where lowlying islands were razed so rich coastlines could steal their sand.

that would actually be better than the reality: we're illegally tearing out protected habitat to steal sand for concrete. Because desert sand isn't shaped right, it can only be beach sand.

so the bahamas will be dredged to the seabed to make chinese highrises

Found the video I was looking for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpc3hhH1cas