“”Hurricane Milton wind speeds at landfall: Another case of exaggerated estimates? I went through all of the highest sustained wind speeds the Hurricane Center listed for several hours around landfall time: The average observed by stations was 67 mph, and the average of the NHC official value was 114 mph. That’s a 47 mph difference. The best positioned station was just offshore of Venice Beach, which measured 78 mph at landfall, which was 42 mph lower than the NHC estimate (120 mph). The same thing happened with Helene: our UAH storm intercept team measured only 60 mph at landfall, whereas the NHC value was 140 mph.””
- Dr. Roy Spencer
I put on my climate expert badge last night and authorized myself to survey the wind speed of the cat six and a half hurricane named uncle Milty. between making stew and checking the weather conditions along the west coast of Florida I wasn’t checking as often as I should have but let’s say maybe every 80 minutes. I was checking the wind speeds at Sarasota, Bradenton and Clearwater and the highest wind speed I found was 48. some of us read that the so-called experts said we might expect as much as a 20-foot storm surge which of course will wipe out all human life except for maybe Mark Spitz. some unnamed guy on TV last night said The surge was about 5 ft where he was. just looking at the radar you could see that the storm basically fell apart before it hit land.
I should clarify that the storm didn’t fall apart but the hurricane did. there was no eye wall at landfall that I could see, which caused the stormy weather to spread out, but without the super strong winds
I was flipping channels last night and sometime around 11:00 Eastern Time I was watching CNN and they had a petite weather gal named Randy k. reporting from ground zero of Milton’s landfall. it didn’t even seem windy. she didn’t have to hold her cap on and the trees behind her had all their leaves on. Granted the storm did severe damage in places, maybe similar to what you would find in a cat one
I was watching when I could on Ventusky looking for the 150 mph winds which didn’t happen when the eye reached land.
The problem could be in a future storm scenario, with this policy by the media and government of ridiculous hyping of forecast wind speeds, damage, flooding etc is that in the event of a really nasty big storm, warnings will be ignored;
“Yeah look what they said last time, they’re blowin’ smoke up our ass again”
There is a reason why Kerry,Hilary,AOC and friends are going so hardcore right now with censorship.
They get 81 mio votes(and will again) the same way Milton got 150 mph.
And the narrative has to be protected.