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100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The good news: Hurricane Nate was eventually downgraded to "a tropical storm" at 4:30 Sunday morning (EST), moving north-northeast with maximum winds of 70 mph. The bad news: 100,000 people don't have power in Mississippi and Alabama, and a tornado watch is in effect until 11 a.m. "Even though Nate has made landfall and will weaken today, we are still forecasting heavy rain from Nate to spread well inland towards the Tennessee Valley and Appalachian mountains," ABC News meteorologist Daniel Manzo said Sunday morning. Saturday the Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi was hit with 85 mph winds and a storm surge of between four to five feet. "Gulf Coast residents are waking up to a wet, windy -- and in some cases, powerless -- Sunday morning," reports ABC News, "but it's still not as devastating as they expected."
a TROPICAL DEPRESSION
You know it's a slow news day when Slashdot is posting articles about the weather. Not about weather, but the actual weather.
BTW, will it rain tomorrow in San Jose?
It makes for good TV, and I'm usually bored and looking for something to watch. Bravo.
Lots of hillibilly rednecks there.
Do you really take pride in sounding like Hayley Geftman-Gold? Or any of the other haters our species' history throws up?
CHINESE HOAX
You mean fourth...
Key West is just as gay as SF and they get hit all the time.
Fort Lauderdale is also very gay.
Make sure you have a hand cranked and solar-powered radio/flashlight/cellphone charger for emergencies.
Of more concern is the demise of TOM PETTY.
TOM PETTY was a wonderful guy.
At least we still have the vocalist of the greatest band of all time!
Because Wikipedia has a long list that is definitely not zero length for hurricanes between 2007 and 2016 inclusive.
hotels atop barges, and separating productive people from unhealthy...
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=2u-NDNVkCOg
The 'red' states are the ones voting men, mostly men into office on the ridiculous belief that seven billion, eight hundred million humans all wanting a car and a warm place to sleep at night have not had an effect on the global weather. We are releasing more carbon, buried for millions of years in just decades then the atmosphere can accommodate. Yes, volcanoes and forest fires happen. But those are routine events over months not a century.
What a surprise. It shouldn't be that big of a leap and assume 'God' is going to help us with a miracle. It is just foolish not understand he already has helped us. It's called the gift of a rational brain. That so many don't want to use it is amazing. Think through the puzzle and start working out the solution. So often I think humans are retard by their strange religions.
And those states have a lot of gay haters, and it is those that god is angry at. Not even god can surgical strike with a hurricane.
Why is it that the utility we rely on most, electric power, is the least reliable? Here in east central Florida, anything more than a brisk zephyr knocks the power out, let alone a hurricane. Any time there is a storm pretty much anywhere, thousands of people lose power. How can we be in 2017 with such a shitty power grid that fails at the slightest adverse weather?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My heart aches for the people of Texas and Mississippi and Florida and Georgia, whose people have been punished by four hurricanes this year alone.
These states, with churches on every corner and the love of God in their hearts, are being targeted. We must ask ourselves why. Consider Toronto and San Francisco, the two gayest cities on the continent. Neither has been affected by a single serious storm.
It is time to get with God, my friends. He has made His feelings abundantly clear. It is time to make room in your hearts, your homes and your bakeries for The Gays.
You cannot argue with God...unless you want to face His punishment.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Crab farts > warmer sea surface temps > more Hurricanes
Climate change is real, disputing that is stupid (especially without data). However, be weary of what you point to as an effect of climate change. Hurricanes have existed long before humans and will continue long after humans.
scientific report
It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate).
However, if we're going by the basis of what Fox News considers the truth then every hurricane is a direct result of global warming and somehow taxes. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
If number of hurricanes is your measure, then recent history suggests global cooling.
There may very well be AGW, but hurricanes aren't proof of it. You would expect, maybe, 2 or 3 extra hurricanes a century, with a 2% increase in average strength.
AGW does itself a disservice by hyperventillating over things like this. Look into things like regression to the mean and what a few degrees actually means.
This hurricane season is notable mainly because a hurricane hadn't made landfall on the U.S. since 2005 (which ironically after Katrina and Wilma, is when people were saying that due to climate change, multiple major hurricanes hitting the U.S. each year was going to be the new norm). That's pretty incredible when you consider that the historical average for the U.S. over 164 years has been 1.73 hurricanes per year making landfall. We basically missed out on being hit by 21 hurricanes in a row.
The average North Atlantic hurricane season sees 10.1 named storms, 5.9 becoming hurricanes, and 2.5 becoming major hurricanes (category 3+). These things tend to be cyclical though, with a few decades with below average storms, followed by a few decades of above average storms, repeat. The prediction for the season was 11-17 named storms, 5-9 hurricanes, and 2-4 major hurricanes. We're almost to the end of the season and currently at 14 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes. Just slightly above predicted.
In terms of number of global cyclones (it is after all called global warming), the North Atlantic is the only basin which has seen an uptick in hurricanes the last couple decades. The East Pacific is flat. Typhoons in West Pacific are mostly flat with a slight downward trend. The South Pacific is down. As are cyclones inthe Indian Ocean.
If we can go an unprecedented 12 years without a hurricane making landfall in the U.S., can you just for a tiny moment consider the possibility that what happened this year was random before jumping to the conclusion that it was due to climate change? (FWIW, I'm of the opinion that climate change adds more energy to the system, increasing not just maximum intensity but also variability. The recent 12 years without a hurricane can mostly be attributed to a very strong El Nino which had the side-effect of reducing the probability of Atlantic hurricanes reaching the higher latitudes like the U.S. However, this being a hypothesis, the burden of proof is upon me. The null hypothesis - the theory that one assumes is true absent statistically significant evidence for an alternative - has to be that there has bee no change in number or intensity of hurricanes. You can get yourself into a lot of trouble if you go hog wild on every theory which has a tiny bit of correlative (but not statistically significant) empirical support. Of such things, conspiracy theories are made.)
Citizens in the Gulf Coast are waking up powerless.... is this somehow different than on any other day?
"If there was an antonym to 'Elon Musk', it would be 'Richard Branson'."
This is supposed to be a site that is News for Nerds. A weak hurricane or strong tropical storm hitting the gulf coast is not news, it is weather and in no way is it nerdy. And not particularly significant unless you happen to live there.
Power outages and hurricanes are normal events. They happen every year. Finally - Harvey hit the Texas coast in late August. Not 3 weeks ago.
Get better editors.
We just absorbed our biggest hurricane hit in nearly a decade and were without power for a week. When they're weaker than expected, it can setup unreasonable expectations for the next one. People are less likely to evacuate, less likely to take warnings seriously. "We evacuated last time and it fizzled."
What you "know" about hurricanes can work against you in the future.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
There may very well be AGW, but hurricanes aren't proof of it.
Well, there is, but you're correct.
The other day I was reading an article [WARNING: Annoying advertisementt] on National Geographic's website which was talking about the storm. I found this phrase somewhat annoying:
So, it wasn't enough last year. The tipping point was this year?
It sort of reminds me of the meme, "I'm not saying it's aliens...but it's aliens." "I'm not saying it's climate change, but it's climate change."
Even though scientists--y'know, smart people that we should consider listening to--say that a single event cannot be attributed to climate change, we're going to say it anyway. Because, hey, what do scientists know? Amirite?
Crabs are cold blooded, as in same temperature as its surrounding, so NO possible way a crab fart could raise the temperature of the water. Fucking nothing but idiots here.
storms around cities in the north have left over 100,000 without power too. this is not even interesting as normal news on a news site, why is it on slashdot. boring. trivial. of no import
If we can go an unprecedented 12 years without a hurricane making landfall in the U.S., can you just for a tiny moment consider the possibility that what happened this year was random before jumping to the conclusion that it was due to climate change? (FWIW, I'm of the opinion that climate change adds more energy to the system, increasing not just maximum intensity but also variability.
Hurricane season has just begun and we're already setting records. Fastest, biggest, strongest, most rainfall.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It seems pretty obvious that God is punishing these red states for putting Trump in office.
Puerto Ricans are Americans.
Cause they can trigger hurricanes, too, you know.
This hurricane season is notable mainly because a hurricane hadn't made landfall on the U.S. since 2005
Which interestingly is the year of the Kyoto protocol. As expected, misguided greeners made things worse.
lucm, indeed.
Atlantic hurricane season (wikipedia): It was originally the time frame when the tropics were monitored routinely for tropical cyclone activity, and was originally defined as from June 15 through October 31.[7] Over the years, the beginning date was shifted back to June 1, while the end date was shifted to November 15,[5] before settling at November 30 by 1965.
We're >2/3 of the way through hurricane season and 4 weeks beyond the historical peak (Sept. 10).
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Well not quite that correct. This succession of hurricanes would be indicative of global warming but not definitive of proof. That would require repeated seasons of large hurricane numbers, not necessarily every year but a definite cycle of large numbers of destructive hurricanes over say a decade. Don't worry all indications are, you will get them, so hold on to your roofs. The off switch is a lot harder to use than people think and consider even if we reached for it now, it is going to get worse before it get's better. What happens in Russia now, as well as of course Canada and Greenland, turning from methane sinks to extreme methane producers, well, things could get a whole lot worse a whole lot faster but at least after a decade or so of extreme chaos it would settle down to a more regular carbon climate change rate and likely cool for a bit, not to current of course, more a humid mess. For hurricanes to be the measure of global warming would be indicative it is too late to prevent severe disruption and how severe seems to depend upon now panicky we get to drive corrective measures.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I live in Wisconsin but we lost power for 3-4 days because of a tornado on more than 1 occassion and here's how it really goes. Not to be rude or arrogant, just being 100% real, the people with weeks of electricity-free foods to eat, a water filter, and a generator, solar array, or a car + high wattage inverter were just fine and the not so responsible people who pretend catastrophes will never happen to them were in big trouble. This is why I consider myself sort of a prepper, although not for the end of the world, just for real stuff that really happens. I just watched a few youtube vids, bought like $100 worth of stuff, and tada all set for massively bad weather occurrences. FEMA agrees with me that everyone should at least take basic steps like this. So everyone complaining about how bad the situation is, it's bad BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T PREPARE! That or their entire house was destroyed. But most are just simply without power.
An entire "hurricane season" isn't a "single event". A single hurricane during a season is, but it seems your equating the entire season to a "single event". Oh, and that's not really a "meme", but is actually a phrase off of "Ancient Aliens" that is said repeatedly by Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. More often said on the show is "Ancient Alien theorists say yes"; because apparently they NEVER say no.
All you cousin fuckers are just going to have to keep pushing water out of your living rooms because you are too stupid to understand that the global warming you deny is the reason 4' of water is in your house.
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I like to imagine God sitting in the Atlantic flicking hurricanes at the US and muttering 'still don't believe in global warming, huh?'
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As usual, the utilities count meters as customers. The actual number of people without power is likely around 300,000.
Lemme know when you toothless fucking yokels figure out how to drive in a 1/4 inch of snow.
Maybe it would serve us right. After all, we're getting one hell of a laugh out of your presidential choice.
Weather is chaotic. This means that we have the storms we have partly because we have global warming. If we didn't, we'd have different storms. Any weather event can be attributed partly to global warming.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Atlantic hurricane season (wikipedia): It was originally
It was originally what? Different?
You read wikipedia like most of the dolts around here read the dictionary, but it's even more pathetic in the case of an encyclopedia.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"