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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI fully expect in coming years
There will be a hurricane/ storm or multiple hurricanes at the same time so big and so strong it will cover almost all of our continental United States.
Please someone tell me this will never happen or could not happen
quaint
(5,082 posts)Thedemby
(58 posts)Hope you sleep well tonight.
PJMcK
(25,048 posts)The ending aint pretty.
Klarkashton
(5,295 posts)Be normal. It won't matter because nobody will be able to live in the Gulf or the southeast coast.
keep_left
(3,211 posts)...but it comes down to the fact that the oceans would have to get much hotter. Raising the temperatures of the world's oceans requires one hell of a lot of energy; those waters are basically a giant heat sink. What (I think) you're describing has been called a megacane/hypercane/etc. It would make for a good movie, though...maybe they already made it, as another poster mentions.
Frasier Balzov
(5,062 posts)What limits the maximum size of a hurricane today?
You're thinking that global warming from climate change will overwhelm those limiting factors.
Or at least push back on them until monster storms supersede other weather patterns across the entire continent.
Does the weather on, say, Jupiter provide any clues?
How close in geographic proximity have two hurricanes on Earth ever come to each other?
From what I've gleaned about cosmology, it's possible for two black holes to merge. Can similar physics operate within Earth's atmosphere?
Runningdawg
(4,664 posts)NowsTheTime
(1,314 posts)" You know, the biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean's gonna rise one eighth of an inch over the next 400 years, ...and you'll have more oceanfront property, right? "
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-more-oceanfront-property/
Retrograde
(11,419 posts)although I expect them to get bigger and more frequent, but a combination of different natural disasters. My part of California has had an extended heat wave - this is normally our hottest time of the year, but previously high temps lasted for 2-3 days and then the fog rolled in, cooling things down. The current one has been going on for a week or more, due to a high pressure ridge sitting off the coast.
And let's not forget fires!