27 ordspråk av Chris Landsea
Chris Landsea
At this point, Rita has become a potentially very devastating Category 5 hurricane. Fortunately it's over the open ocean of the Gulf of Mexico, and will be over the open ocean for the next day. But we expect it to gradually make a turn to the north.
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Back then forecasters didn't have satellites or even land-based radar. All they had were ships at sea.
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But it will make it more problematic for the recovery efforts there.
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Everyone wants to know what's going to happen this coming season, given the horrible impacts of the last two years.
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Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.
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I know how many holes there are in the data. I put it together.
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I think that this is very good science and a very important paper, but I don't think it settles every question.
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I thought his analysis was interesting, but I think it's far from definitive.
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If it's a Category 3 at landfall, it's equivalent to 25 Category 1s,
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If it's a Category 3 at landfall, it's equivalent to 25 Category 1s.
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In general, Florida gets hit a lot. But what we've seen the last two years should not continue.
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It's a good way to end the record-breaking season. Why not have one more and be done with it?
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It's almost certain it will make landfall as a major hurricane -- Category 3 or Category 4.
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It's cyclical. If there are changes from human-induced global warming, they're so small we can't detect them yet.
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It's getting to be a large-sized hurricane, ... If the storm hits Texas, some of the rain and the squall conditions will affect other areas as well — and probably Louisiana.
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