Hurricane Milton reaches Category 5 strength on approach to Florida

[seminole97]

Damn...you guys excel at the self-own today. Let's posit on the warmer pre-human Earth there were massive hurricanes that developed in days to veritable Cat 6 status? There were massive carnivorous dinosaurs roaming the landscape then, as well, You want to bring them back, too, or just the superstorms that will devastate the country costing hundreds of billions of dollars...each?

Geologically, we’re coming off bottom temps.

A simple reversion to mean is beyond all apocalyptic scenarios.

I’m going to take hurricanes over glaciers in Iowa, even if mankind co-existed with the latter.

 

[Thunderlips71]

Please stay safe, Florida friends 🙏🏻

 

[Bank of Hawk]

read somewhere about the deep deep waters in the gulf, still very cold waters, can get churned to the surface by a hurricane and that can weaken the system as well.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Damn...you guys excel at the self-own today. Let's posit on the warmer pre-human Earth there were massive hurricanes that developed in days to veritable Cat 6 status? There were massive carnivorous dinosaurs roaming the landscape then, as well, You want to bring them back, too, or just the superstorms that will devastate the country costing hundreds of billions of dollars...each?

The plutonomy will be fine. Plutocrats and big corporations are the dinosaurs of our era.

 

[the24fan]

Generally speaking, a storm can't maintain that level for long because the eye gets so small it chokes off the hot air exhaust and the eye wall weakens. What you'll often see is the development of a new outer eye wall that will then start to take over but - usually - the storm weakens as that happens. Gilbert was a storm that kind of defied that probability - when it hit the Yucatan back in '88 there was a Cat 4 inner eye wall and a Cat 3 outer eyewall...a tropical two-fer. 😕

This is the correct answer. Strong hurricanes go thru eye wall replacement cycles. Plus there is some forecasted southwesterly shear that may weaken it slightly. I guessing it may arrive a bit stronger as a 4 when it makes landfall . Anyhow it may grow larger and affect more people. Take it seriously

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Geologically, we’re coming off bottom temps.

A simple reversion to mean is beyond all apocalyptic scenarios.

I’m going to take hurricanes over glaciers in Iowa, even if mankind co-existed with the latter.

WTF are you talking about? The only historical climactic “mean” that matters is that in which human civilization has evolved. Five degrees warmer will be apocalyptic for that civilization.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Do you presume it happened during the time temps were higher? Because that’s most of the time things have been crawling this rock.

This is the logic of the simple minded

 

[Funky Bunch]

Generally speaking, a storm can't maintain that level for long because the eye gets so small it chokes off the hot air exhaust and the eye wall weakens. What you'll often see is the development of a new outer eye wall that will then start to take over but - usually - the storm weakens as that happens. Gilbert was a storm that kind of defied that probability - when it hit the Yucatan back in '88 there was a Cat 4 inner eye wall and a Cat 3 outer eyewall...a tropical two-fer. 😕

The latest discussion agrees with you

Hurricane Milton Forecast Discussion

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Anyway, seems like Milton is going to blow his wad early and wear itself out before getting to Florida.

Much to the disappoint of Mrs. Milton