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Real hurthling! posted:they had like an hour notice i think You can't blame Midwesterners for ignoring something that has a Spanish name, it's instinctive.
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In 2012 there was no warning in the DC area even after the ~Super Derecho~ had left most of Ohio without power. It just *happened* and when I saw 200k reported outages and climbing by the minute on the local power company's tracking website I grabbed a bag and went looking for a hotel that still had power and hadn't thought to gouge their rates yet. Looking back at the history of the event, meteorologists could see atmospheric conditions were primed, but nothing like it had happened before, and I guess there's no reason to scare people with something you'll have to explain. Maybe after this they'll finally start calling them Inland Hurricanes so people will instinctively know they're not to be hosed with.
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Aug 16, 2020 01:52
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Luneshot posted:also to be real for a moment; i think everybody knows this but it's worth emphasizing that this is the new normal, coming soon to a community near you "Oh? A Derecho damaged your house? And yes, I can see you have Homeowner's/Renter's Insurance with us, and a twenty-three year account holder ~and we do thank you for your business and loyalty~. Buuuuuuut...you didn't elect to take out a Catastrophic Natural Disaster Type C add-on package that specifically covers storms like Derechos. Sorrrrrry, absolutely nothing we can do!" 
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Aug 17, 2020 00:55
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Atrocious Joe posted:Does the insurance industry try to lobby climate scientists and meteorologists when it comes to storm categorizations. I'd be really surprised if that's not a big portion of AccuWeather's business model.
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Aug 17, 2020 06:32
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Reminds me a bit of the bit right before the worst ending of Far Cry 5. >.>
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Aug 20, 2020 09:13
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Kinda optimistic of them to suggest it'll remain a Cat 1, seeing as every sub-Cat 3 hurricane that touches the Gulf almost immediately goes up two notches in grade, at least while it's in open water.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:05
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George Carlin's "I Kinda Like it When a Lot of People Die" bit is sounding eerily like 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GKVFGYcCy0
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Aug 22, 2020 20:19
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Victory Position posted:christ, looking back at the stories, Quad Cities had 106,000 households without power In the 2012 Derecho, 1.6 million in MD lost power, ~1 million each in both Ohio and Virginia, 672k in WV, and ~68,000 in DC (which was ~10% of the city's inhabitants, during a 100F+ heat wave). Winds barely broke 90mph, though. Again, they need to start calling them "Inland Hurricanes" to get people's attention.
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Aug 23, 2020 06:11
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Zeno-25 posted:The thing about it is this derecho was exceptionally severe. Most have winds of 60-90 mph but this one had a measured 126 mph and 140 based off of damage estimates. Oh, I'm not discounting the fact that this thing was a mid-grade EF3 a few hundred miles long. I'm just saying they might need to be renamed since I'm almost certain they'll become way more common.
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Aug 23, 2020 06:33
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Watch Laura make landfall, then make a sharp button hook over Alabama and Georgia right into the tropical storm "nursery" area that's right off Georgia and the Carolinas before regaining strength and raking the East Coast before plowing into NYC.
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Aug 26, 2020 20:24
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"This isn't that bad!"  *gets torn out to sea by a huge riptide, Darwin's grave twitches in approval*
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Aug 26, 2020 22:25
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Jeff might be safe from the flooding, but I really hope being on top of that parking garage doesn't flip his car. The winds during a *normal* storm even 50 feet above your head can be worse than the ones at ground level.
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Aug 27, 2020 05:19
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Mrs. Sexual posted:When do gas prices go up? It usually takes about two weeks for an interruption in supply/refinery capacity to start affecting the price, typically first in the geographic region that's affected by the disturbance and supplied by the refineries affected, and then everywhere else by Week 3.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:32
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Aug 27, 2020 06:40
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Keeping the windshield wipers on is cute. Pretty sure the wind is doing a better job of clearing the glass than the blades.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:52
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Gotta love how humanity enabled/fostetered a second Atlantic storm nursery off the Georgia/Carolina coasts in less than 200 years of industrialization. 
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Aug 31, 2020 00:38
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I fear any storm named Omar.
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Aug 31, 2020 01:36
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Seattle has more to fear from atmospheric river storms than tropical cyclones.
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Sep 1, 2020 06:27
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Uh, pretty sure you could point the finger at Sandy, too. Just because it didn't have triple-digit wind speeds doesn't mean a 900 mile wide storm still isn't  territory.
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FlamingLiberal posted:This one is a favorite of mine It better fuckin' NOT. I've got (cancellable) hotel reservations in Virginia Beach from 9/8-9/10. Gonna prop my feet up on my oceanfront hotel room balcony, enjoy the sea breeze (maybe more than I'd like), and stay the holy gently caress away from people. High improbability aside, my guess is Pat Robertson is going to die in the next week sometime if that model holds true. He's been keeping the hurricanes away from Virginia Beach, y'know! 
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hobbesmaster posted:9/8/2019? Ugh. Those numbers are so damned small, and I've been looking forward to getting away from DC (if only to chill beside the ocean on a balcony while 100+ feet away from people) that I didn't notice that.
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Sep 1, 2020 20:28
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TACD posted:Going to be awkward when one of the Greek named storms is devastating enough to warrant retiring that name Hurricane Oedipus, the first storm that can actually be called a "motherfucker."
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Man Musk posted:weathergeddon x cool zone cross-over post On the plus side, the smoke might smell better than Tacoma's Aroma.
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Sep 9, 2020 09:01
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Vox Nihili posted:No fires in the Great Dismal Swamp. There have so been fires there, and they *stink*, too. https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/success/stories/2008/nfp_2008_va_fws_gdsnwr_firefighting.shtml
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Sep 12, 2020 05:24
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SpudCat posted:We'll have people too poor or stupid to leave even as the seas rise and claim them Moving is expensive for a reason and some people don't have a choice. So while there might be stupid and stubborn people in these areas, don't disparage the ones who are there and have no choice in the matter because of their financial situation. It's the same logic that was used back with Katrina and "why didn't the people who stayed pack up their cars and leave?" Because they didn't have cars, or if they did, they didn't have the money to afford the gas and lodging inland.
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Sep 12, 2020 07:29
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I know this is going to sound premature given that it snowed in August in parts of the country, but I think with all the aerosols leeching into the atmosphere from these fires that we're looking at another "Year Without a Winter" at this point.
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Sep 12, 2020 08:09
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Main Paineframe posted:it likely has more to do with global warming disrupting polar wind patterns Yeah, I was just prefacing my thought with the mention of snow in August/September because even here someone might fire back with "but it's already snowing how can you say there won't be a Winter?  "
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Pryor on Fire posted:That storm track is very unfortunate for flooding/storm surge around Lake Pontchartrain, hopefully it doesn't strengthen much. "Hopefully the fire doesn't get worse as it burns its way through all those fireworks and fertilizer factories and oil refineries. Fingers crossed!"
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Sep 13, 2020 23:54
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Log082 posted:maryland has been matrix dodging natural disasters for years, especially hurricanes. The worst we've gotten in 2020 is some local flooding from strong rain. Will Teddy finally be the hurricane to thread up the bay and gently caress our poo poo up? Don't worry, so long as Pat Robertson draws breath, no hurricane shall touch the Bay! (Seriously, he thinks it's his Divine relationship with the Lord that's kept Virginia Beach/the Chesapeake Bay from taking a hit from a major hurricane for 30+ years now, not BLIND loving LUCK)
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Sep 16, 2020 16:27
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Shifty Nipples posted:The amount of particulate in the air is comparable to the amount of particulate that would be produced by burning that many cigarettes. Yet isn't it a flawed comparison simply because cigarette particulate is 'tar,' while wildfire particulate tends to turn to something resembling *cement* inside the lungs? Or is that just volcanic ash that does that?
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Yeah, I remember reading about that. The friction of the ash against the windows also caused a pretty decent instance of St. Elmo's Fire.
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Bert Roberge posted:In general, mosquitoes that bite humans prefer to fly at heights of less than 25 feet. However, mosquitoes are found breeding in tree holes 50 feet above ground. They are even found thriving in high rise apartment buildings. There have been reports of cattle deaths in the wake of Laura dying of being overly drained of blood by an explosion in the *biting* kinds of mosquitoes.
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Sep 19, 2020 08:56
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I thought that was less "vampiric mosquitos sucking things to death" and more "prey animals will literally exhaust themselves to death trying to run away from a precieved threat and clouds of mosquitos are apparently irritating enough to trigger that" I'm sure you're right, I just saw the initial headline and thought "yeah, sure...WHY NOT."
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Sep 19, 2020 09:23
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FAUXTON posted:Lol a giant hurricane sitting between west palm beach and the bahamas for 3 weeks would be on point for 2020 I love the track that just decides to turbofuck Hampton Roads, a geographic area that has done ZERO meaningful preparation for hurricanes because they've been lulled into a 30+ year false sense of security. If anything, they've followed Houston's example and overdeveloped, robbing the area (which is a giant subsidence crater thanks to a ~3km wide asteroid paying a visit ~35.5mya) of valuable storm-surge-absorbing wetlands. Even *outside* the impact crater, the ground is glorified sand. For those who just want more info on the asteroid, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater
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Spangly A posted:I think theres a ways to go for the 05 records? Not if the season extends into February because reasons.
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twoday posted:https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1361727461940101121?s=19 Christ, I can imagine all the Karens in Sigonella right now having a loving normal one over this. "WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE, IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE LIKE VESUVIUS AND WE'RE GONNA BE ASHED LIKE POMPEII" BIG HEADLINE has issued a correction as of 21:53 on Feb 16, 2021 |
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Feb 16, 2021 21:46
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Perfectly normal this time of year!
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May 1, 2021 18:11
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SirPablo posted:Chasers suck Pecos Hank seems cool.
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May 4, 2021 06:45
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Can't wait for the first EBS warning telling people to not go outside due to "lethal" temperatures. ...and then people in that part of CA doing it anyway because "GUBBERMINT AIN'T TELLIN' ME WHAT T'DO."
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I'm sure the inevitable flight of climate refugees from California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas will be managed well and fairly by the Federal Govhahahahahahhahahahasdhjsdfhsdfjsfhsdhahhahsahahaha. Looking forward to millions of displaced red-staters being "persuaded" to relocate into blue bastions, too.
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