[2015] Hurricane Season

I could be mistaken here (I wish more people on the BBS would learn that phrase), but Ike was a Category 2 when it made landfall at Galveston....the strongest Cat 2 possible, 1 mph shy of Cat 3.

I always wondered if that was bull***t, if there were any reasons for fudging the numbers, because it seemed when I was watching the TV that it stayed at 110 mph, and stayed at 110 mph, and stayed at 110 mph, and never hit that magic 111 mph or above.

Ike was bad enough. I don't want to see what a Cat 3 or 4 is.

 

With Ike they really needed to modify the scale - it was a cat 4 in every aspect except wind speed.

 

Agreed; Ike was bloody MASSIVE. It doesn't matter how fast something is if it just keeps coming and coming. (heh)

 

I have been b****ing about that for years on weather blogs and to meteorologist in the Houston area (most in the private sector, o & g and etc). A lot of them agree they should make a separate scale for storm surge. Ike is the reason why.

Ike was closer to Cat 5 storm surge when all said and done.


Joaquin is a pretty storm though and I feel bad for those in the Bahamas. They are taking it right on the chin down there.

Life RBTOP loop

 

<img src="http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Major-Hurricane-Joaquin-is-shown-at-the-far-eastern-periphery-of-the-GOES-West-satellites-full-disk-extent-taken-at-1200Z-on-October-1-2015.-1024x576.jpg" width="850" />

 

I thought it was more like a high 3 to 4.

They definitely should have two ratings, one for wind and one for surge. Wind cause wide spread damages, but not deadly as surge. If you think just about death potential, if there is just one rating, Surge would take priority.

 

So what should we be expecting this weekend? Looks like Patricia should lose a lot of speed immediately after landfall..but given it's a cat 5, should we expect some strong gusts or just constant rain?

 

The news will tell you 100% rain and massive flooding. It may be true.

 

But dang, Mexico is in for a good beating.

200MPH

That got to be a record?

 

That's a lot of mphs

 

Is Patricia going to impact Katy?

 

Hmm... sounds sexy...

 

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-97.84,17.86,827

Crazy.

 

Yep, most certainly is a record. Strongest eastern pacific on record. Will likely be the strongest ever recorded in the next few hours or so.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Patricia?src=hash">#Patricia</a> from when it was named to this morning's no words 200mph/880mb status. Most strengthening past 30 hrs. <a href="https://t.co/tZku6pc9f4">pic.twitter.com/tZku6pc9f4</a></p>&mdash; Ian Livingston (@islivingston) <a href="https://twitter.com/islivingston/status/657541297796960256">October 23, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

Wo, that's way cool.

 

strongest hurricane ever in the pacific? that's bizarre.

 

Probably the strongest tropical cyclone ever, since instrument were reliable. There were two that had higher wind (215 and 205), but officially, not reliable enough to count.

Wiki is fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones