NOAA: U.S. Completes Record 11 Straight Years Without Major Hurricane Strike

[rangerrebew]

NOAA: U.S. Completes Record 11 Straight Years Without Major Hurricane Strike

(CNSNews.com) – Today marks the completion of a record-breaking 11 years without a major hurricane striking the U.S. mainland, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [1] (NOAA).

“I can confirm that as of October 24, 2016, it will be a complete 11 years since a major hurricane has struck the United States, as defined by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale [2] of being a Category 3 or higher,” meteorologist Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for NOAA’s National Hurricane Center [3] (NHC), told CNSNews.com.

“The current streak of no major hurricane landfalls onto the U.S. mainland remains intact. The last one to do so was Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005,” Feltgen said.

 

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[Free Vulcan]

Concrete proof that we are suffering from runaway global warming. Absence of hurricanes is sure evidence of global warming, unless we are having alot of hurricanes, then that is sure evidence of global warming, just like either a cold or warm winter is sure evidence of global warming.

[XenaLee]

NOAA: U.S. Completes Record 11 Straight Years Without Major Hurricane Strike

(CNSNews.com) – Today marks the completion of a record-breaking 11 years without a major hurricane striking the U.S. mainland, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [1] (NOAA).

“I can confirm that as of October 24, 2016, it will be a complete 11 years since a major hurricane has struck the United States, as defined by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale [2] of being a Category 3 or higher,” meteorologist Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for NOAA’s National Hurricane Center [3] (NHC), told CNSNews.com.

“The current streak of no major hurricane landfalls onto the U.S. mainland remains intact. The last one to do so was Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005,” Feltgen said.

 

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Source URL: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/noaa-us-completes-record-breaking-11-years-without-major

If Hurricane Ike in 2008 wasn't a ""major"" hurricane.... what is?

It wiped parts of Galveston and Boliver clean.  Nothing and no structures left standing.  All the way inland in Houston, all residential fences were down, branches and trees felled everywhere.  I'd sure as hell hate to see a hurricane that these idiots deem "major".

[thackney]

If Hurricane Ike in 2008 wasn't a ""major"" hurricane.... what is?

It wiped parts of Galveston and Boliver clean.  Nothing and no structures left standing.  All the way inland in Houston, all residential fences were down, branches and trees felled everywhere.  I'd sure as hell hate to see a hurricane that these idiots deem "major".

Major Hurricane at landfall is defined as a Cat 3 at landfall. 

http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/2000s/ike/

Hurricane Ike made its final landfall near Galveston, TX at 2:10am CDT on 13 September as a strong Category 2 hurricane (it had sustained winds of 110mph, just 1 mph shy of Category 3 status), with a Category 5 equivalent storm surge.

[Just_Victor]

Major Hurricane at landfall is defined as a Cat 3 at landfall. 

http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/2000s/ike/

Hurricane Ike made its final landfall near Galveston, TX at 2:10am CDT on 13 September as a strong Category 2 hurricane (it had sustained winds of 110mph, just 1 mph shy of Category 3 status), with a Category 5 equivalent storm surge.

I still think the official wind measurement is off.  I always wonder how many pressure data points they take when calculating that number?  How much does the pressure vary in the eye where they take the measurement?

I still had power as Ike was coming ashore and I watched the weather station wind readings in Galveston.  The wind was never dropping much below ~120mph.  Based upon that I would have said the max sustained winds were ~118mph.  The pressure/wind correlation is supposed to be more accurate, but if they got a bad reading, who knows.

There are too many factors that lead to uncertainty in the wind velocity to make that cutoff at 110/111mph and say that because we were 0.5mph shy of the cutoff it wasn't a "major storm."

[jmyrlefuller]

Such a metric is useless. It is almost impossible for a major hurricane to remain a major hurricane as it makes landfall, mainly because once its bands cross land, friction and orographic lift disrupt the flow and weaken the winds. So it takes exceptional events to produce such a phenomenon.

Then you have gimmicks like redefining Sandy midway through the storm from a "hurricane" into an "extratropical storm."

[mountaineer]

[Smokin Joe]

Major Hurricane at landfall is defined as a Cat 3 at landfall. 

http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/2000s/ike/

Hurricane Ike made its final landfall near Galveston, TX at 2:10am CDT on 13 September as a strong Category 2 hurricane (it had sustained winds of 110mph, just 1 mph shy of Category 3 status), with a Category 5 equivalent storm surge.

I knew a guy who went through Ike. Great guy, nasty storm. I was in contact with him just after and the one thing they needed was water (drinkable), which was hard to get into the area from outside because things were such a mess. Everyone was pretty much in the same boat.
People where he was were stunned that the storm and the aftermath got almost no press compared to what Katrina and others got. Help is proportional to media coverage, more often than not, and they had a mess on their hands.

(Lesson to preppers and even those who aren't.) Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. Have a gallon per person per day and the means to purify more.)

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I knew a guy who went through Ike. Great guy, nasty storm. I was in contact with him just after and the one thing they needed was water (drinkable), which was hard to get into the area from outside because things were such a mess. Everyone was pretty much in the same boat.
People where he was were stunned that the storm and the aftermath got almost no press compared to what Katrina and others got. Help is proportional to media coverage, more often than not, and they had a mess on their hands.

(Lesson to preppers and even those who aren't.) Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. Have a gallon per person per day and the means to purify more.)

Owning a swimming pool takes care of the water part...


Yes it is drinkable if you've been treating the water properly.

[thackney]

I knew a guy who went through Ike. Great guy, nasty storm. I was in contact with him just after and the one thing they needed was water (drinkable), which was hard to get into the area from outside because things were such a mess. Everyone was pretty much in the same boat.
People where he was were stunned that the storm and the aftermath got almost no press compared to what Katrina and others got. Help is proportional to media coverage, more often than not, and they had a mess on their hands.

(Lesson to preppers and even those who aren't.) Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. Have a gallon per person per day and the means to purify more.)

The day before Ike came through, I filled the big whirlpool bathtub, a 65 gallon portable tank, and 30 1 gallon milk jugs.  We never lost water pressure in the subdivision.

Now we have our own well, a generators to run the pumps.  As a back up, previous owner run a line to his neighbor so either could back up the other.  A couple other wells on the two properties as well.

[thackney]

Owning a swimming pool takes care of the water part...


Yes it is drinkable if you've been treating the water properly.

Most in ground swimming pools following a hurricane are filled with trash, flooded with run off water that ran through the neighborhoods.  I would not plan on that except through filter and purification for drinking.

[Smokin Joe]

Owning a swimming pool takes care of the water part...


Yes it is drinkable if you've been treating the water properly.

Provided nothing contaminates it.

[Joe Wooten]

I knew a guy who went through Ike. Great guy, nasty storm. I was in contact with him just after and the one thing they needed was water (drinkable), which was hard to get into the area from outside because things were such a mess. Everyone was pretty much in the same boat.
People where he was were stunned that the storm and the aftermath got almost no press compared to what Katrina and others got. Help is proportional to media coverage, more often than not, and they had a mess on their hands.

(Lesson to preppers and even those who aren't.) Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. Have a gallon per person per day and the means to purify more.)

Our Scout troop has this pump



MSR MiniWorks EX Water Filter

Works very well.

[Smokin Joe]

Our Scout troop has this pump



MSR MiniWorks EX Water Filter

Works very well.

There are a few good units out there, and everyone should have at least one, even if it is only one of those 100 gallon things. I recommend the means to boil water, too.