Arial photography shows that most of the damage was done by the storm surge, rather than by wind. Roof damage is caused by wind, but houses getting washed away is caused by water. Category four winds would have removed just about all the roofs, and knocked down most of the trees.
Drone footage shows Hurricane Michael ravaged Florida town where it made landfall
Leftists are done being civil, like they were eight years ago – when they called for skeptical schoolchildren to be executed by their teachers.
As Hurricane Michael came on shore, NOAA reported peak gusts of 119 MPH, with maximum sustained winds of 150 MPH. This makes no sense mathematically or scientifically, but makes perfect sense from the point of view of global warming propagandists.
Then the fraudsters at Weather Channel upped the ante, and added an extra 10 MPH to the peak gust.
After all of this junk science and garbage mathematics, Hurricane Michael officially became the third most intense hurricane on record.
This is all because … science.
A few weeks ago climate scientists said climate change is making hurricanes slow down, stall and rain a lot like Florence. This week they say climate change causes fast moving hurricanes like Michael.
I was watching the storm and the commentary this morning, and long before landfall Michael was officially declared to be a catastrophic category four hurricane (just below category five), the most powerful to ever make landfall “in that region” – and the third most intense in US history after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Camille in 1969. It was a genuine pre-hurricane category four propaganda storm.
The NOAA wind gauge at Panama City didn’t back up any of the claims. It showed a peak sustained wind speed of 62 knots before the eyewall arrived, and minimum pressure of 937.5 mb. Neither remotely close to the hype.
Meteorological Observations – NOAA Tides & Currents
The pictures of damage I’ve seen don’t compare to other “officially less intense” hurricanes, like Andrew in 1992.
Or the 1926 Miami hurricane.
Or the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
Weather Channel made these claims – 155 MPH sustained winds and central pressure of 919 mb. which weren’t even in the ball park of what the NOAA instrumentation at Panama City showed.
And then they directly contradicted themselves in the same article, with the image below. There weren’t any category four wind speed gusts, much less sustained winds. I don’t see any evidence from wind reports or damage reports that Michael was a category four storm at landfall.
I also don’t see any evidence that Michael was stronger than numerous other hurricanes which have hit the region.
12 Oct 1894, Page 7 – New-York Tribune at Newspapers.com
I’ve seen this pattern over and over again – fake landfall statistics are made up long before landfall, the press dutifully parrots them, and then the actual data measured at landfall becomes irrelevant. It is same strategy leftists use for everything.
Over the past ten years, sea level at Lower Manhattan has trended downwards about four inches.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/data/8518750_meantrend.csv
Meanwhile, this is what our top climate scientists are saying about Manhattan sea level.
Here’s what NYC would look like if sea levels rise by 8 feet – Curbed NY
Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com
Sea level rise at Manhattan has been averaging less than three millimeters per year since Republicans forced Democrats to give up their slaves in the 19th century. Most of this apparent rise has been due to the land sinking, and it will require more than 2,500 years for sea level to rise eight meters.
8518750_meantrend.png (1000×400)
As is almost always the case with climate scientists, they either have no clue what they are talking about, or they are lying.
The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) is by far the best temperature data set in the world, and it wrecks the global warming scam. Climate scientists massively tamper with it, and Mosher is raging against it on twitter today. The Ministry of Truth is getting very desperate, and is trying to make USHCN disappear.
NOAA US Data Tampering Update | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
