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The science behind super-strong hurricanes like Ida
« on: September 05, 2021, 03:06:28 pm »

The science behind super-strong hurricanes like Ida
Climate change is now an ingredient in every storm, including Ida.
Satellite image of Hurricane Ida crossing Cuba
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Zoya Teirstein Reporter

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    Aug 30, 2021
 

Less than a week ago, Hurricane Ida was known as Tropical Depression 9, a swirling mass of energy in the Caribbean Sea. That mass developed into a powerful tropical storm last Thursday, by which time there was no mistaking what would happen next: Ida was on track to become a major hurricane. Forecasters knew this with almost complete certainty for one simple reason: the storm was on track to pass through the Gulf of Mexico, where sea surface temperatures are unusually high.

Sure enough, Ida strengthened into a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico, gathering more steam as it moved closer to the coast over tepid water. It slammed into Louisiana near Port Fourchon on Sunday evening as a Category 4 storm packing maximum sustained winds of 172 miles an hour and unleashing as much as 20 inches of rain. Nearly half of the state was without power on Monday.

“Hurricane Ida packed a very powerful punch,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said in a televised address on Monday. “She came in and did everything that was advertised.”

https://grist.org/climate/the-science-behind-super-strong-hurricanes-like-ida/

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Re: The science behind super-strong hurricanes like Ida
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2021, 06:51:32 pm »
Is this real science, or is it from Sears & Roebucks?
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Re: The science behind super-strong hurricanes like Ida
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2021, 07:38:21 pm »
Is this real science, or is it from Sears & Roebucks?
More like K-mart blue light special. When they throw a globull warming cause or possible cause for increasing the power of the hurricane I sop reading.

Warming can exacerbate them though, often in devastating ways. That’s what may have happened with this storm, though Stephanie Herring, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told Grist that we won’t know for sure exactly how climate change influenced Ida until a formal attribution study has been conducted.

By 'formal attribution study' I'm pretty confident that means wasting taxpayer money to just make stuff up.

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Re: The science behind super-strong hurricanes like Ida
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2021, 07:42:01 pm »
How is a hurricane that is not even a Cat 5 a 'super-strong hurricane'?
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