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Using the Drudge scale, we had a category four hurricane in Colorado this morning.
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Okay, Matt mixed up kph & mph in the hurricane categories, but at least he doesn’t pretend to be a climate expert. Now if he doubles down and insists that he’s right, and calls those who correct him “deniers,” he might qualify for a job at NASA GISS, or UEA CRU.
Oops… further down in the article it says:
As of Friday afternoon, Phalin is packing winds sustained at 260 kph (160 mph) with gusts to 320 kph (200 mph). This makes Phalin the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane and super typhoon…
A track toward the northwest is expected until landfall Saturday. Phailin has the potential maintain Category 5 intensify until the point of landfall. If that is the case, the impacts will be catastrophic.”
So the Cat 5 designation was correct. The 160 kph number is for wind speeds “across a wide area.” But hurricane categories are determined by wind speeds at their most intense, not the lower speeds that can be expected “across a wide area.”
It is forecast to weaken to 100 MPH before hitting India
Let’s hope so.
I doubt if the India weather service maintains a fleet of storm chaser airplanes to fly into the center of the storm and measure the wind speed as is done by the US. Without accurate measurements the wind speed of this storm is a guess, and the hysterical liberal media is guessing for disaster. Obviously a storm, but not the worst storm ever that the hysterical and myopic media enjoys reporting so much.
India is a big place. I’d be surprised if any typhoon could ‘devastate India’. That’s like near-hurricane Sandy devastating the US.
This is a Global Warming typhoon and it has para-physical abilities being powered by 400ppm CO2.
Please don’t make fun of Phailin, she could easily turn and come after you.
The name is pronounced “failing”, and we hope she will live up to it.
Is it possible to devastate that which is already devastated?
“India accounts for world’s poorest nation, says World Bank.”
There are NO hurricanes in the US this year at all, so the doom and gloom hysterics have to go half way around the globe to find one. And then they lie about it since nobody here can see it. Yes, liberal is a mental disease.
There could be an event like the 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh that was catastrophic (remember the Beatles “live aid” concert?). So even if it is catastrophic, these cyclones are nothing new and say nothing at all about “climate change”.
“The India Meteorological Department confirmed that Phailin made landfall in Gopalpur Saturday evening with winds over 200 kph (125 mph).”
“For much of Friday night into early Saturday afternoon, Phailin had been the equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane or super typhoon, but the storm weakened measurably prior to reaching land.”
Steven, you only had to read a couple more lines…
Cut the BS.. The article made it quite clear that it was not expected to be a category five when it hit India as Drudge’s headline claimed.
Goddard, try improving your reading comprehension skills.
Thank God it weakened some, but 125 mph is a strong Cat 3, which would still be classified as a “devastating” “major” hurricane by the U.S. National Hurricane Center, and which is just 5 mph short of a “catastrophic” Cat 4:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
Since it was Cat 5 when the article was written, and it certainly was “set for India,” and since nobody really knew whether it would weaken or by how much, I think Matt’s headline was reasonable, and I do not think he was mistakenly classifying 100 mph winds as being Cat 5. Sorry, Steve, I side with Matt on this one.
So now all major hurricanes are category 5 hurricanes?
No, but Matt didn’t say that, either. When Matt called it a Cat 5 it really was a Cat 5. It was not “100 mph winds,” nor even 125 mph winds. It was 160 mph winds, with gusts to 200 mph. That’s a Cat 5.
It was down to a strong Cat 3 when it made landfall, but even then it had 125 mph winds, not “100 mph winds.”
Sorry, Steve. Matt’s headline was right, yours was wrong. He did not say that 100 mph winds were cat 5.
Not at landfall and not at landfall forecast. The article Drudge quoted made that abundantly clear in the first paragraph. Sorry, Dave, Matt’s headline was wrong.