It pisses me off when someone reports that the Hurricane is now a Cat 5 with 170 mph wind speed, and they NEVER tell you the altitude from which that windspeed is derived. I suspect they are making statement based on Max Sustained Windspeed (avg peek over 1 minute) at flight level (10,000 ft.) At surface level, the max sustained windspeed is going to be much, much less.
But my question is this:
If I look at current Milon windspeed at 10 m above surface, I cannot see anything higher than 68 mpg. Yet YT weather sources are reporting Milton has strengthened to CAT 5 with 170 mph winds.
Even at 10K ft., I only see 90 mph windspeed. I do see Wind Gust speed up to 110 mph, but gust are gust.
Why such huge difference between what Weather people report and what the Satellite's report?
I have done a moderate amount of reading to try and answer my own question. I have read that when storm Max Sustained is reported, the standard is suppose to be 10 m above surface. But I doubt this is adhered too.
Fear sells more than cuddly kittens. It doesn't matter right now if the winds are 60mph or 175mph, measurements only matter when the hurricane hits land. Then one can project the amount of damage that could be sustained. I say let's track all airplanes heading into and around the Gulf and then determine which one's are seeding the hurricane. Maybe then we can track the planes and figure out from whence they come. Wouldn't it be nice to talk to the flight crew and see what their orders entailed?
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A crazy thought popped into my head today about Milton.
These evil fuckers that want us all dead believe in Quantum Mechanics and Laws of Reciprocity. They also believe in Karmic Retribution.
What if they want everyone to believe that Milton is Cat 5, to thereby Quantum Mechanically make it a Cat 5?
Like if we get everyone to believe it's 5, it will truly become a 5?
We create our own reality. Why do you think propaganda is so important? Tell people a lie often enough and long enough they believe the lie which in turn impacts reality through collective consciousness.
The Bible warns us to guard our hearts and minds. This is not just hyperbole or simply metaphoric language. Our thoughts do have an impact on our reality and therefore need to be protected from negativity. Knowing truth is good. But how we let that truth effect us shapes our realities. We must use the knowledge of truth as a force for good and positive action rather than allowing negativity and fear to overwhelm us and freeze us to inaction or irrational action. A true slave is one that is a mental slave regardless of whether they are in physical chains or not. True defeat is mental defeat.
May we all guard our thoughts from negativity. The powers that should not be are herding the sheep and at the same time they are trying to negatively impact the rest of us with constant blows in order to break us. We are in a 5th generation asymmetrical war. Be strong and be of good courage, because we know who wins in the end. No power on earth can change that truth.
Recreating the tower of babel, and most do not even know they are helping.
Thanks for sharing. I very closely align with what Mac1221 shares. "The power of life and death are in the tongue.". And Jesus example to us is He Spoke to the storm, "Peace, be still'".
Jesus moved the doubters out when He raised the little girl.
"Milton, peace, be still".
"Milton just fell apart"......yep....
They want us to believe that we're having more intense storms because of "muh climate change." So whether or not these storms are actually these high categories, personally I think they're going to report them as such to fit their narrative.
Because 68 mph winds don't generate as much fear as 170 mph and they know that no one will bother to check.
I'll let you know Wednesday what my estimate of the actually surface winds on land are as this damn Milton is pretty much predicted to roll directly over the top of my house, and I live four miles from the coast lol.
Did Helene affect you? I'm in upstate South Carolina and Helene winds knocked out power for a week. For us it was mostly a wind event - trees down on roads, powerlines, some houses and vehicles. We did get a lot of rain, but no flooding. I can't imagine being in the Milton path right now, and I'm praying for those who are.
Please stay safe and update us on how you are doing if you can. I'm originally from New Orleans and one of the reasons I chose to live here is because hurricanes are usually weakened substantially by the time they get here. I just couldn't take the stress of hurricane season anymore.
BTW Governor DeSantis never ceases to amaze me. Shut down the port strike and now shut down FEMA closing down landfills for debris. Every state should be so fortunate to have a governor like him.
Fear Sells, However VENTUSKY tells the truth, use 10 meters above ground and enjoy those 12 + computer models that give you the path that I have used for ten years with 100 % Satisfaction ! Please check it out, test it for future use. And May God Bless our Friends in the path of Milton and Bring Great Penalty to those that intensified it and Helene while witholding fair response.
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source: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/floater.php?stormid=AL142024
Like I said, max sustained winds at what altitude? I don't live at 10,000 feet and could care less what it's blowing up there. It's true though that the windspeed at surface level is a percentage of what it is at 10k so that does have significance.
In Europe, to derive max sust windspeed, they look at 10 minute avg peek. The U.S. uses one minute which in my view is more like a long gust.
Here is the most detailed explanation I have found on Surface windspeed vs Flight Level windspeed.
Notice that back when they compared speed at altitude with ocean data, the estimate was much lower wind at surface. They didn't like this answer to they changed way they measured it.
"One of the more difficult problems for operational tropical cyclone forecasters is the assessment of the cyclone's maximum sustained surface wind. Even when aircraft reconnaissance data are available, these are typically obtained from the 700 mb (10,000 ft) level; from these flight-level observations, the forecaster is left to estimate the surface winds. Based on comparisons of flight-level and buoy data, Powell and Black (1990) recommended that a ratio of 63%-73% be used to reduce reconnaissance flight-level wind observations. While operational practices at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) have varied over time, in recent years surface winds have typically been taken to be 80%-90% of the flight-level wind. In view of studies such as Powell and Black, use of these relatively high ratios has periodically resulted in criticism of NHC intensity estimates."