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I don't see Michael Snyder as an expert on the weather but he writes well on this.
By
Michael Snyder
Meteorologists
have been shocked at how rapidly Hurricane Irma has been
strengthening, and they are already warning that if it hits the
United States as a high level category 5 storm the devastation would
be absolutely unprecedented. Of course we are already dealing
with the
aftermath of Hurricane Harvey,
and many experts are already telling us that the economic damage done
by that storm will easily surpass any other disaster in all of U.S.
history. But there is a very real possibility that Hurricane
Irma could be even worse. According to the National Hurricane
Center, at 5 PM on Friday Irma already had sustained winds of 130
miles per hour. But it is still very early, and as you will see
below, next week it is expected to potentially develop into a
category 5 storm with winds of 180 miles per hour or more.
One
fake NWS and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
infographic shows Irma travelling through the Gulf of Mexico and
making landfall near Houston.
Category 6? If Hurricane Irma Becomes The Strongest Hurricane In History, It Could Wipe Entire Cities Off The Map
By
Michael Snyder
September
1st, 2017
Meteorologists
have been shocked at how rapidly Hurricane Irma has been
strengthening, and they are already warning that if it hits the
United States as a high level category 5 storm the devastation would
be absolutely unprecedented. Of course we are already dealing
with the
aftermath of Hurricane Harvey,
and many experts are already telling us that the economic damage done
by that storm will easily surpass any other disaster in all of U.S.
history. But there is a very real possibility that Hurricane
Irma could be even worse. According to the National Hurricane
Center, at 5 PM on Friday Irma already had sustained winds of 130
miles per hour. But it is still very early, and as you will see
below, next week it is expected to potentially develop into a
category 5 storm with winds of 180 miles per hour or more.
I
suppose that it is appropriate that such a powerful storm has a very
powerful name. In old German, the name “Irma” actually
means “war
goddess”…
The name Irma is a German baby name. In German the meaning of the name Irma is: Universal, from the Old German ‘irmin’. War goddess.
Irma
began forming on Wednesday, and it intensified at a faster rate than
any storm that we have seen in
nearly 20 years…
Hurricane Irma formed early Wednesday in the warm waters off the coast of West Africa — and took just 30 hours to strengthen to a Category 3. That’s the fastest intensification rate in almost two decades. By Friday afternoon, the storm had also grown noticeably larger in size with a well-defined eye, a classic sign of a strong hurricane.
Though Irma poses no immediate threat to land, the outlook is ominous: In the Atlantic, Irma is expected to pass through some abnormally warm waters — the primary fuel source for storm systems. The official National Hurricane Center forecast says it will remain at major hurricane status for at least the next five days, and, in a worst-case scenario, Irma could eventually grow into one of the strongest hurricanes ever seen in the Atlantic.
So
how powerful could Irma eventually become?
According
to Michael Ventrice of the Weather Channel, Irma could easily become
a “super typhoon” with “sustained
speeds of over 180mph”…
Veteran USA forecaster Michael Ventrice posted the track model on Twitter overnight and warned it looked like the storm could be a “super typhoon”, with sustained speeds of over 180mph.
He wrote: “These are the highest windspeed forecasts I’ve ever seen in my 10 yrs of Atlantic hurricane forecasting.
“Irma is another retiree candidate.”
The
scale we have right now really never envisioned storms that
powerful. In fact,some
have suggested that
we need to add a “category 6” to describe the kind of “super
storms” that are now developing in the Atlantic.
One
of the reasons why Irma is so unique is because it is a “Cape
Verde hurricane”…
There are a few factors that worry hurricane forecasters more about this storm when compared to the myriad other tropical storms and hurricanes that tend to form in the Atlantic.
First, it’s a so-called Cape Verde storm, having formed off the west coast of Africa. These storms tend to be the ones that go on to affect the U.S., after gathering strength for many days during their march across the ocean. For example, Hurricane Andrew, which was the most recent Category 5 storm to hit the U.S. in 1992, was a Cape Verde-type storm.
Because they begin at a relatively low latitude and move west rather than northwest, it can be harder for upper level winds blowing across North America to pick up and steer these types of storms away from the U.S. coast.
Let
us hope that this storm does get steered away from our coastlines at
some point, but so far that is just not happening.
Many
hurricanes are often weakened by wind shear, but that isn’t
happening to Irma either. In fact, CNN
is reporting that
“Irma will remain in a low-shear environment for the next several
days”…
A strong high-pressure ridge to the north of Irma, over the Atlantic, is steering the storm to the west and limiting the wind shear in the upper levels of the atmosphere, which has allowed the storm to grow so quickly. Wind shear is like hurricane kryptonite, and prevents storms from forming or gaining strength.
Unfortunately, Irma will remain in a low-shear environment for the next several days, so there isn’t much hope that Irma will weaken any time soon.
Basically,
conditions are nearly ideal for a “super storm” to develop, and
if Irma does make it to the U.S. the destruction that it causes could
be absolutely off the charts.
Of
course at this point there is no guarantee that it will ever reach
the United States. But if it does, and if it is still a
category 5 storm when it arrives, we could be facing an event unlike
anything that we have ever seen before.
Do
you remember Hurricane Katrina? Well, scientists now know that
when it hit New Orleans it had already been downgraded to
just a “low category 3” storm…
To put this all in perspective, Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane out over some hot spots in the Gulf. But when it hit New Orleans, scientists now know, Katrina had winds at a low Category 3, and much of them Category 2, including the “left side winds” that then came down from the north and pushed the surge-swollen waters of Lake Pontchartrain over and through NOLA’s levees. (Hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, so when Katrina came ashore just east of New Orleans, its winds hit the city from the north.)
Only three Category 5s have come ashore in the United States in the past century — the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, Camille in 1969 and Andrew in 1992.
And Hurricane
Harvey was
just a category 4 storm.
If
Hurricane Irma were to make landfall as a category 5 storm with
sustained winds of 180 miles per hour, it would rip buildings and
everything else in its path to shreds.
We had 'fake news'. Now it seems like the authorities are telling us we have 'fake weather forecasts
Irma threat: US weather agency warns over ‘fake forecasts’
The
US National Weather Service (NWS) has warned people to watch out for
“fake forecasts” that say Hurricane Irma is set to make landfall
in the state of Texas.
Texas
is currently reeling from the impact of the devastating Hurricane
Harvey, a storm that claimed the lives of more than 40 people and
left around 430,000 people living in sheltered accommodation.
HurricaneHarvey could be one of the costliest natural disasters in US history
Now
the development of second storm system, Irma, has US residents
worried following suggestions online that it could follow a similar
path to Hurricane Harvey.
Next
week we shall find out what happens. Let us hope for the best,
but let us also get prepared for the worst.
Seeing way too many bogus posts on FB about Hurricane Irma. NOBODY knows the final destination now, and nobody will for days…
That's because he is not an expert. He is a lawyer and a Christian end times fundamentalist with a hyped up site selling thousands of useless pepper products - dropped shipped of course. Also a climate denier.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you stick with the guys who are qualified, have decades of experience and are straight shooters?
Perhaps you got to 5 million pages hits from posting too many links to hysterical parasites?
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-track-towards-lesser-antilles
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6