Kind of wish I had not found this thread. We live on the coast and now I'm questioning that with every damn storm that happens. Only lived there a year and we've already narrowly avoided flooding with Alberto. Had a drive by with Beryl. And now watching this and this one would absolutely flood and wipe out our lower level.

I'm a little confused by this comment. Would you rather be surprised by it?

maroon barchetta said:

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Were you not familiar with the hazards of owning a home in a hurricane zone?

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Of course. It's one thing to know about it; it's another to actually live in it and have to deal with it in real life.

Regardless, I'll blame my wife if something happens. She was the one who was adamant about living here. She grew up here; I didn't. So this is all new to me.

I assume that is Tallahassee. Damn. That is going to be catastrophic damage.

This one has the blue shed...

The intro had the blue shed

9ft storm surge. good thing it didn't hit the high end of the projections. it's pretty bad as it is.

YouBet, which town are you living in? We are in NW Houston and have major damage from Beryl.

cone said:

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It’s as if something has changed. https://t.co/W40ZS9PEMv

— Matt Lanza 🤌🏼 (@mattlanza) September 27, 2024

our guy

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Flaith said:

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Absolutely heard on all that. But does that tweet from a meteorologist trigger all of those geopolitical talking points?

I just took it to mean that the earth is warming and causing a lot of storms, full stop.

Edit: I actually had to look up the word specious. Great word.

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It's that tweet coupled with past tweets/posts/words from Lanza. It's context.

One tweet should generally not be taken in a vacuum.

My opinion.

Anyone that knows what's happened since the Younger Dryas period understands what's going on. . .

It's because we have followed these meteorologists for a while and already know their stance. see this.


12 min ago
Why was Hurricane Helene so bad? Fossil fuel pollution.
From Angela Fritz, CNN Senior Weather & Climate Editor


(CSU/CIRA & NOAA)
Hurricane Helene was bound to be a major disaster.
The atmosphere, warmed by more than a century of fossil fuel pollution, is hotter now than it was in pre-industrial times. That means it can hold more moisture, which wrings out as torrential rain in storms like Helene, triggering deadly flooding not just in Florida but across the Southeast.
Helene also rapidly intensified twice before it reached Florida, because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is off-the-charts warm much like the rest of the Atlantic. More than 90% of warming around the globe over the past 50 years has taken place in the oceans, and it's making storms more likely to undergo these rapid intensification cycles.
Sea levels in Florida are as much as 8 inches higher than they were in 1950. The speed of that rise is increasing too. This translates to higher storm surge.
Across the board, Helene was a hurricane supercharged by climate change.

Sea surface temperatures were abnormally warm as Helene crossed from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday into Wednesday, allowing the system to rapidly intensify. The darker the orange, the warmer the water is than normal.
CNN Weather
"For decades now, scientists have been warning us that extreme weather events will be exacerbated by this blanket of carbon pollution we've been wrapping around our planet," said Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy. "But as a human, it is shocking to see the devastation occurring in front of our eyes, affecting the people and places we know and love."
Hurricane expert Jeff Masters tallied up some numbers last night that speak for themselves:
There have now been eight Category 4 or 5 hurricane landfalls on US soil in the past eight years.
That's as many as the entire 57 years that came before it.

Cromagnum said:

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Houston would be so ****ed if that came here. We would be without power for months.

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So will Florida.

listen I want to be able to talk down to people I know in my bones I'm better than and I won't let the something like the truth get in my way

Brutal. Back to back years with surge from a major hurricane for Cedar Key.