I would say the news does an amazing job of making every disaster look like it devastates a much larger area than it does. Every hurricane, the news makes it look like Florida from Key West to Pensacola has been wiped off the map. The truth is the devastation can be large parts of multiple cities.. but no storm has ever 'knocked a whole city down.'
Notice how they never tell you at what altitude hurricane wind speed are being reported from. This pisses me off to no end.
I will be listening to a weather guy saying max sustained winds (1 minute avg peak. I Europe the use 10 min average) is 130 mph. I look at wind speed measured by satellite at different altitudes, and only see the speed they are reporting at, say 10,000 feet. 10 meters above ground may be no more that 70.
Here is a good site. Go to hurricane, click on windspeed, look at different altitudes. (If all tabs don't show resize screen)
Helene had a wide path for its Cat 4 size. I was wondering if some HAARP techie could steer it to not only hit GOP strongholds, but avoid liberal minded college campuses. Just thinking out loud.
I know this.. if you have water in the bathtub and you open the drain, the drain swirl gets much bigger and faster if you stir it with your hands.. even if you just slightly twirl it the drain swirl gets much larger..
I would say the news does an amazing job of making every disaster look like it devastates a much larger area than it does. Every hurricane, the news makes it look like Florida from Key West to Pensacola has been wiped off the map. The truth is the devastation can be large parts of multiple cities.. but no storm has ever 'knocked a whole city down.'
Notice how they never tell you at what altitude hurricane wind speed are being reported from. This pisses me off to no end.
I will be listening to a weather guy saying max sustained winds (1 minute avg peak. I Europe the use 10 min average) is 130 mph. I look at wind speed measured by satellite at different altitudes, and only see the speed they are reporting at, say 10,000 feet. 10 meters above ground may be no more that 70.
Here is a good site. Go to hurricane, click on windspeed, look at different altitudes. (If all tabs don't show resize screen)
https://www.ventusky.com/
Helene had a wide path for its Cat 4 size. I was wondering if some HAARP techie could steer it to not only hit GOP strongholds, but avoid liberal minded college campuses. Just thinking out loud.
I know this.. if you have water in the bathtub and you open the drain, the drain swirl gets much bigger and faster if you stir it with your hands.. even if you just slightly twirl it the drain swirl gets much larger..