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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 10:33 PM Sep 2022

Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 2 storm

Source: CNN

Hurricane Ian keeps getting stronger as it barrels toward Florida, prompting urgent evacuations and threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane.

Ian is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, according to a 5 p.m. ET update from the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. The eye of the storm is located around 150 miles southeast of the western tip of Cuba and Ian is moving north-northwest near 13 mph, the center said.

Florida could start feeling Ian’s wrath as early as Tuesday, with hurricane conditions potentially hitting the state Wednesday.

The hurricane center’s forecast for Ian “has shown an unprecedented rate of strengthening from a tropical storm to powerful hurricane,” CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/us/tropical-storm-ian-florida-hurricane-monday/index.html
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Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 2 storm (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2022 OP
Really getting tired of the word "unprecedented." dchill Sep 2022 #1
Yeah, thats click bait for TV. Cheezoholic Sep 2022 #4
Its now moving over a hot pool of water just south of Cuba Cheezoholic Sep 2022 #2
"bombing out" means...? intrepidity Sep 2022 #6
Rapid intensification Cheezoholic Sep 2022 #7
..."has shown an unprecedented rate of strengthening from a tropical storm to powerful hurricane". OnlinePoker Sep 2022 #3
Oh the bashing these guys get on a couple weatherboards Im on is NOT repeatable here lol n/t Cheezoholic Sep 2022 #5
Welp... lonely bird Sep 2022 #8

Cheezoholic

(1,967 posts)
4. Yeah, thats click bait for TV.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:08 PM
Sep 2022

From a named storm to a Cat 2 in 48 hours? As Bill the Cat would say Pfttt! Unprecedented my ass. I hate TV weather assholes anymore

Cheezoholic

(1,967 posts)
2. Its now moving over a hot pool of water just south of Cuba
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:02 PM
Sep 2022

some of the warmest water in the Caribbean and GOM approaching mid to high 80s. The core is still slightly wobbling like a top but there is a small closed eye of about 20 miles wide from the aircraft currently flying the storm. The tip of Cuba won't interrupt this thing much if at all. This area is notorious for hurricanes to bomb. Rapid intensification models aren't letting up with pushing this to Cat 3 before Cuba. Intensity forecasts are the most difficult with our current technology. Most of the record holders for bombing out occur in this area. Not saying it will but this is the area we call the Cat 5 generator for a reason lol.





https://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimtc/2022_09L/web/displayGifsBy12hr_04.html

Cheezoholic

(1,967 posts)
7. Rapid intensification
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 01:55 AM
Sep 2022

The area between Cuba and Campeche has been fertile water for storms to get strong quickly

OnlinePoker

(5,702 posts)
3. ..."has shown an unprecedented rate of strengthening from a tropical storm to powerful hurricane".
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 11:03 PM
Sep 2022

No. Hurricane Harvey in 1981 went from tropical depression to hurricane in 12 hours and a Cat 4 in less than 3 days.

Ian was a tropical depression on Sep 23, tropical storm on Sep 24, Cat 1 this morning and Cat 2 12 hours later. It may become a Cat 4 tomorrow night or early Wednesday.

And Wilma in 2005 and Felix in 2007 went from tropical depression to Cat 5 in 54 hours, with Wilma going from tropical storm to Cat 5 in only 24 hours.

CNN has to fire up the hyperbole to keep the viewers glued to their sets. I'm not downplaying this storm, it's a bad one, but the intensification has not been unprecedented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_records

lonely bird

(1,642 posts)
8. Welp...
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 08:24 AM
Sep 2022

If and when it hits western Florida perhaps Lee county can just deal with the aftermath on their own.

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