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2023-08-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Idalia may be most powerful hurricane ever to hit US. Here's why

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Posted by Fred 2023-08-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Unlikely.

Back in 1935 a hurricane (not named back then) hit the Florida Keys with winds up to 180mph and barometric pressure of 892 milibars.

Idalia will likely get up to 125 mph (maybe 135) and maybe down to 940 mb.

Posted by lord garth 2023-08-30 00:08|| 2023-08-30 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Hurricane Katrina

Highest winds 175 mph (280 km/h)
Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa); 26.64 inHg

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 07:23|| 2023-08-30 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 In the age of weathertainment, named raindrops and gerbil worming hysteria, every day is the hottest ever, every storm is the worstest ever.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-30 08:05|| 2023-08-30 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 But none of these other storms had Ron De Santis as govenor of Florida! So this has to be the worst!

Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2023-08-30 09:55|| 2023-08-30 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Yes, and that's funny, because they built it up so as to build him up for failure. Now they have to find a "person of color" who had a gutter blown off their uninsured house so it can be reported that "DeSantis rayciss policies" are to blame.

I like the guy, but he is not going to be president. I think he ruined his political stock bu not sitting 2024 out.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-30 10:08|| 2023-08-30 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a shame that they stopped using math in meteorology school.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-30 10:28|| 2023-08-30 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Hurricane Camille, a Category 5 storm, made landfall in Mississippi with 175 mph winds, 24 feet of storm surge.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-08-30 11:35|| 2023-08-30 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 What's the pool on DeSantis withdrawing to deal with the [storm] damage?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 11:57|| 2023-08-30 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Hurricane Andrew Highest winds: 175 mph (280 km/h) Lowest pressure: 922 mbar ; 27.23 inHg

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-08-30 12:21|| 2023-08-30 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 - Suspend (temporarily), because it's the right thing to do

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-30 12:30|| 2023-08-30 12:30|| Front Page Top

#11 In this case, yes. He is s till the governor here. Still, I am reminded of McShame "suspending" his "campaign" during the "financial crisis," which "of course," he was in a position to "solve."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-30 13:14|| 2023-08-30 13:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Worst part about the storm, Fla-NG 1-111 AV is distributing water and RAT food.

Whatever happened to Coke and Twinkies in a crisis?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 14:35|| 2023-08-30 14:35|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't think there's any way this can be built up to Katrina level excuses for ongoing failures by individuals a decade or two hence.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-30 14:46|| 2023-08-30 14:46|| Front Page Top

#14 I read the article, but failed to grasp why Idalia "may be the most powerful". The lowest pressures only show up in the comments, not in the article.

Posted by Bobby 2023-08-30 15:05|| 2023-08-30 15:05|| Front Page Top

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