Strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded (outside the gulf)? Cat 5 with 175 mph sustained winds.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article171291337.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article171291337.html
I have a buddy who just moved to Melbourne earlier this year...I think he's a bit north of the bad stuff but still in harms way. Been watching this.
Trump sent Jose south!
HoseB took him back to Juarez.
185 Sustained now.
Not to sound too foolish of course, but I'd like to see that in the flesh for a few brief seconds. It isn't even imaginable..
Not to sound too foolish of course, but I'd like to see that in the flesh for a few brief seconds. It isn't even imaginable..
From wiki
"Jet blast is the phenomenon of rapid air movement produced by the jet engines of aircraft, particularly on or before takeoff. A large jet-engined aircraft can produce winds of up to 100 knots (190 km/h; 120 mph) as far away as 60 metres (200 ft) behind it at 40% maximum rated power."
Here you go.........
Dang, does Florida have a gay mayor also?
happens every time anything over a cat 2 hits the state. All the yankees and new york transplants don't prepare until it hits them right in the face.
Hurricane Irma is so strong it's showing up on seismometers — equipment designed to measure earthquakes.
"What we’re seeing in the seismogram are low-pitched hums that gradually become stronger as the hurricane gets closer to the seismometer on the island of Guadeloupe," said Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
The noise is likely caused by high winds — which cause tiny motions in the ground — and also by trees swaying in the wind, which also transfers energy into the ground, he said. The seismometer is located close to the ocean, so waves crashing along the coastline reverberate around the island, also generating seismic energy, Hicks added.
The hurricane isn’t creating earthquakes, he said. "Earthquakes occur tens of (miles) deep inside Earth’s crust, a long way from the influence of weather events, and there is no evidence to suggest that hurricanes and storms directly cause earthquakes," Hicks said.
Meteorological monsters: Only 3 Category 5 hurricanes have ever hit the U.S.
It's not unusual for large storms to register on seismometers for hours to days as they pass over.
"We saw this for Hurricane Harvey on seismometers located close to Houston," he said. In the U.K., wintertime storms can sometimes make it hard for seismologists to see small earthquakes because the noise level generated by storms is so high.
As Irma approaches seismic sensors, "we will see a dramatic increase in the amplitude of the seismic recordings," Hicks said.
"What we’re seeing in the seismogram are low-pitched hums that gradually become stronger as the hurricane gets closer to the seismometer on the island of Guadeloupe," said Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
The noise is likely caused by high winds — which cause tiny motions in the ground — and also by trees swaying in the wind, which also transfers energy into the ground, he said. The seismometer is located close to the ocean, so waves crashing along the coastline reverberate around the island, also generating seismic energy, Hicks added.
The hurricane isn’t creating earthquakes, he said. "Earthquakes occur tens of (miles) deep inside Earth’s crust, a long way from the influence of weather events, and there is no evidence to suggest that hurricanes and storms directly cause earthquakes," Hicks said.
Meteorological monsters: Only 3 Category 5 hurricanes have ever hit the U.S.
It's not unusual for large storms to register on seismometers for hours to days as they pass over.
"We saw this for Hurricane Harvey on seismometers located close to Houston," he said. In the U.K., wintertime storms can sometimes make it hard for seismologists to see small earthquakes because the noise level generated by storms is so high.
As Irma approaches seismic sensors, "we will see a dramatic increase in the amplitude of the seismic recordings," Hicks said.
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