A category one hurricane (on a scale of 1 to 5) has maximum sustained winds of 74 to 95 miles per hour near the eye. A category five hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 156 to 200 miles per hour. The difference between the two storms is gigantic and non-linear. The latter hurricane may cause 250 times more damage than the former.
Water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are now running as warm or warmer than they did during the record setting season of 2005. This is significant. Warmer water means more heat and humidity over the tropical ocean to fuel hurricanes. Just as a car needs gasoline to fuel its engine, a hurricane needs hot, humid air because a hurricane is little more than a gigantic atmospheric engine. The warmer and more humid the air it breaths in, the faster its pistons pump and the stronger its winds become. The warmer water not only makes more hurricanes, it make more big ones. The 2005 season had a record 15 hurricanes. Nobody knows how many there will be this season. But it appears that it could be a big year.
Oil continues to gush out of the bottom of the gulf. Some progress has been made to reduce the amount escaping. Oil is washing up on shores and efforts are being made to clean it up. The good news is that most of the oil is confined to coastal areas. The bad news could come if a moderate to large hurricane rides over the spill.
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The oilcano will destroy all life, water, plants, animals. The end game is here.
ReplyDeleteWhat's a sheeple to do?
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ReplyDeleteDoesn't it like - have to actually happen first ?
I mean; just sayin'.
Personally - I think the giant meteor that is hurling itself toward earth at 20,000 miles per
hour will get here first.
Actually the odds are that a big hurricane will disperse the oil and 90% of it will just be gone. This has happened before where a hurricane caused the oil to just disappear.
ReplyDeleteJust check out the Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly map from NOAA.
ReplyDeleteIt clearly show that Gulf waters are 2-3 celsius warmer than the seasonal average. If you look at it carefully, you will see oil spill areas are the warmer ones.
Many scientist already warned because of the spill the water reflects less light and might get warmer. We can see it clearly now on the map.
The only question is whether evaporation is the same or does the oil spill slow it? If it's the same and the water is 2-3 degrees warmer, than you might expect very very strong hurricanes over there ...
here is the map from NOAA:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb/atl_anom.gif
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsst.shtml