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Figarosmom

(12,002 posts)
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 09:17 PM Oct 2024

I 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

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I fully expect in coming years (Original Post) Figarosmom Oct 2024 OP
la la la la la quaint Oct 2024 #1
Ahem... Thedemby Oct 2024 #2
I saw that movie PJMcK Oct 2024 #3
We are getting to the time when cat 5s are going to Klarkashton Oct 2024 #4
It's very unlikely, for reasons that are a bit over my head, actually... keep_left Oct 2024 #5
I need to know more about what the existing contraints are. Frasier Balzov Oct 2024 #6
Oldie but a goodie-Read Natures End by Whitley Streiber Runningdawg Oct 2024 #7
My goodness, you just have to believe.....( and not think) NowsTheTime Oct 2024 #8
Probably not a hurricane Retrograde Oct 2024 #9

Klarkashton

(5,295 posts)
4. We are getting to the time when cat 5s are going to
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 09:24 PM
Oct 2024

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)
5. It's very unlikely, for reasons that are a bit over my head, actually...
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 09:30 PM
Oct 2024

...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)
6. I need to know more about what the existing contraints are.
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 09:59 PM
Oct 2024

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?

NowsTheTime

(1,314 posts)
8. My goodness, you just have to believe.....( and not think)
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 11:01 PM
Oct 2024

" 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)
9. Probably not a hurricane
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 11:29 PM
Oct 2024

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!

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