What is up, with the weather ?

[JackLuis]

With Global Warming getting worse we may see Hurricane Zenobia wipe out New Newfoundland!

 

[JackLuis]

Terrifying footage shows Hurricane Irma destroying a beach in St. Martin

As Hurricane Irma barrels toward the United States, footage of the storm taken from a beach in the tiny island of St. Martin shows the storm’s terrifying potential for destruction.

The footage was posted on social media by Keraunos, a French observatory that specializes in monitoring extreme weather. It shows sustained winds of over 180 miles per hour blowing over trees and severely limiting visibility beyond a few feet.

The storm is headed north through the Caribbean Islands and could hit the continental United States early next week.

Say farewell to the Bahamas! And Key West!

 

[JackLuis]

Hurricane Irma bears down on Dominican Republic

Scary maps in this! Puerto Rico is in the way before Irma hit the DR! Reporting gusts up to 225 MPH!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Believe me, not good’: Trump delivers stunningly inarticulate warning about Hurricane Irma

President Donald Trump summed up Hurricane Irma, a powerful storm heading for Florida, by calling it “not good.”

During remarks at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said that the storm could be “record breaking.”

“There’s a new and seems to be record-breaking hurricane heading right toward Florida, Puerto Rico and other places,” the president warned. “We’ll see what happens, we’ll know in a short period of time.”

Trump added: “It’s looks like it could be something that would be not good. Believe me, not good.”

"No bueno, amiguys!'

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"Irma has broken the scale(s)"

try, maybe Hurricaine Irma may not be more powerful than a Cat 5, but it is certainly pushing the limits.

"Worse than Andrew"

"Bigger than Ohio"

Cat 6 on the table ? Let us ask Snopes!


CLAIM

Hurricane Irma is projected to be so big that it may become a "Category 6" hurricane; that a new "Category 6" will be invented specifically for Hurricane Irma


FALSE

We can say with certainty that Hurricane Irma is not a Category 6 storm and will not become one because that category does not exist. The highest rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a five, which contains all storms with sustained winds greater than 157 mph.

The idea that Irma is a Category 6 storm seems to have originated with a a blog post that implied that a new category, Category 6, would be created for Irma. While the post does not state this directly, its headline reads “Category 6? If Hurricane Irma Becomes The Strongest Hurricane In History, It Could Wipe Entire Cities Off The Map.” That story, written by end-time enthusiast and Republican candidate for Idaho’s first congressional district Michael Snyder, was first published on his blog “The Economic Collapse” before being aggregated by other clickbait sites.

more info at snopes page-

So how powerful could Irma eventually become? According to Michael Ventrice of the Weather Channel, Irma could easily become a “super typhoon” with “sustained speeds of over 180mph” […]

However, claims that the size of this specific storm was large enough to spawn discussion of a new hurricane wind category are based on general scientific discussions and not on the strength of Hurricane Irma.

http://www.snopes.com/hurricane-irma-track-become-category-6-storm/

 

[JackLuis]

These 9 terrifying maps show how Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia are a ‘massive national security risk’

Three Hurricanes and oh shit!

 

[Hypoxia]

Sinful people have angered weather gods all over the planet. Piss off a weather god and shit, you're in it deep. Wind, rain, hail, snow, lightning, funnels, dust devils, frog falls -- at least we don't get urine-cicles from airliners anymore.

Yes, the gods are pissed about sinful humans. But which sins set off which gods? When a monogamous god punishes polygamists and a polygamist god smites the monogamous, everybody's fucked, right? But the weather gods seem to hate poor people most 'cause that's whom they smite most. Poor fuckers.

Of course the deities could just sit back and let global warming do its thang. We don't need gods to fuck us over. We do that well enough ourselves. Pass the petrol.

 

[JackLuis]

Tenants terrified after rental company locks away buildings’ storm shutters as Hurricane Irma bears down

Tenants at a Florida apartment complex are scared and angry because the company that manages their property is not letting them board up their windows for Hurricane Irma.

Local news station WPTV reports that property management company Services Taylor Made, Inc. sent a letter to renters at the Colony Park apartment complex this week telling them they are not allowed to shutter their windows without offering them any rationale for the decision.

“Understand that while we empathize with your need to protect your personal property, boarding up your residence is NOT something you are allowed to do,” the letter states.

The apartment complex does have window shutters that are locked inside maintenance closets that were put there for the specific purpose of boarding up windows during hurricanes — but Services Taylor Made still isn’t letting the tenants use them.

“Previous years we’ve had property managers that have allowed the maintenance men to open up the doors and the tenants would go in and get the shutters that are underneath the steps over here and they supplied the bolts,” Colony Park resident Del Vargas tells WPTV. “When I asked [a company representative] today, she said, ‘Corporate said no, no shutters.’ I’m like wait a second, the governor said make a plan, get it done.”

I'd check the insurance policy, it could be that the Company will make money if the complex is ruined. Tough shit for the renters, but Corporate makes the dough ray mi.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The major media networks did not try to obscure the size of Hurricaine Sandy. It was a massive system. Fortunate for the North East, our waters are mostly cold.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation on Oct. 29 at 18:20 UTC (2:20 p.m. EDT). Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England. Sandy made landfall hours after the MODIS image was taken.

(Did you know that Republicans are responsible for de-funding scientific measuring instruments, because they do not like scientific data, and satellite pictures that provide proof of global climate change ?)


Last Tuesday, much was made of the fact that a satellite map of rainfall estimates in the Houston area required two new colors to represent the tremendous amount of rain—between forty and sixty inches—that was expected. But no less astonishing, in the end, was the map’s pinpoint accuracy.

All of this is thanks to the armada of satellites and instruments that now orbits the planet, marking Earth’s every shift and exhalation and returning a torrent of data to us on the surface. Followers of the Weather Channel or the N.H.C.’s Twitter feed have grown accustomed to consuming visual data—those rainfall maps are the output of nasa’s Global Precipitation Measurement mission—but it’s unlikely that they grasp the scale of the enterprise. Among the dozens of Earth-observing satellites, belonging to various nations, are several used exclusively for weather forecasting. These include four geostationary satellites, GOES-13 through GOES-16, which sit high above Earth and monitor the planet as it rotates below. Five more orbit the poles every ninety minutes, monitoring a fresh north-south swath of Earth with each passage—“like peeling an orange,” as Florence Rabier, the director general of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, described it to me.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elem...etting-better-and-hurricane-irma-is-the-proof


Hurricaine Sandy could cover half of the USA,or most of Central Europe.

Irma may be the size of Texas, or France, but the system is fueled by very warm waters.

Irma,one of the most powerful hurricanes, so far.

 

[DrDelirium]

Look on the bright side: A nuclear war with North Korea and China should give us enough nuclear winter to offset global warming for years!

 

[phrodeau]

President Trump recently learned that we have droughts.

I also want to tell the people of North Dakota and the Western states who are feeling the pain of the devastating drought that we are with you 100 percent -- 100 percent. (Applause.) And I've been in close touch, numerous times, with our Secretary of Agriculture, who is doing a fantastic job, Sonny Perdue, who has been working with your governor and your delegation to help provide relief. And we're doing everything we can, but you have a pretty serious drought.

I just said to the governor, I didn't know you had droughts this far north. Guess what? You have them. But we're working hard on it and it'll disappear. It will all go away.

 

[Hypoxia]

Bend over, open legs, kiss ass bye-bye

(Did you know that Republicans are responsible for de-funding scientific measuring instruments, because they do not like scientific data, and satellite pictures that provide proof of global climate change ?)

Look on the bright side: A nuclear war with North Korea and China should give us enough nuclear winter to offset global warming for years!

By killing scientific research, the Gups are ceding future science and technology domination to the Chinese. I fly a bumper sticker: HANG THE GOP TRAITORS. This is part of why. Yeah, they'll have us kissing Chana's ass -- if we don't exchange nukes first. That's possible.

President Trump recently learned that we have droughts.

And they're YUGE! (Hey Ivanka, what can we sell there?)

 

[Tigersman]

Climate change

Will be recognized as fact if our President's holdings get hit. That is why I'm praying hard for them to be ravished.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Scott Pruitt said "Now is not the time to talk about Global Warming."

That fucker needs to die a slow death.

And I am getting closer and closer to joining Antifa.

 

[JackLuis]

Read that there is an internet petition to change Hurricane Irma's name to

Hurricane Ivanka!

 

[JackLuis]

Hurricanes Jose and Katia are getting stronger

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Hurricane season in the North Atlantic is showing no sign of letting up. Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas and Louisiana and then Irma crashed through the Caribbean on approach to Florida. Now, two other major storms are building in the Atlantic.

One of them, Hurricane Jose, is a Category 3 storm and is threatening to bombard some of the same Caribbean islands that have been largely destroyed by Irma. Katia, meanwhile, is getting stronger and looks set to deluge Mexico’s east coast with heavy rains and battering winds.

Bad news continues.

Resources are likely to be stretched, however, after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of southern Mexico, on the other side of the country to Hurricane Katia. The earthquake has killed at least five people so far and a tsunami warning has been issued in its wake.

and

 

[JackLuis]

As if that is not enough!

The sun has gone wrong and scientists don’t know why

If you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time to slap them on and look up at the sun. You’ll see two big dark areas visible on our star. These massive sunspots are regions of intense and complicated magnetic fields that can produce solar flares—bursts of high-energy radiation. You can just make them out with solar viewing glasses, but they’re better viewed through a solar telescope.

These two huge sunspots are currently causing quite a bit of consternation and interest. The solar storms they’ve sent toward Earth may affect communications and other technologies like GPS and radio signals. They’re causing amazing displays of the Northern and Southern Lights. And space weather scientists like us are excited because we wouldn’t normally expect this much activity from the sun at the moment.

 

[DrDelirium]

The sun has gone wrong and scientists don’t know why

All those solar power installations are draining the sun and making it unstable. See what you've done, you damned environmentalists!

 

[Hypoxia]

Hurricanes blasting low-lying coastal areas are nasty. Hurricanes soaking mountain slopes are catastrophic. Hurricanes float around the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean loosing deadly torrents on surrounding mountainous lands. I've seen where villages in Chiapas and Guatemala have been scoured away by mudslides. Few if any survivors. Even little Katia can do immense damage.

Be scared. Hurricane season 2017 could last for months more. Any number of storms could come slashing through, turning hot seawater into devastation. And 2018 will be hotter. This is the warm-up. Get ready for more.

Solar storms are fun too. I get a free daily email report from spaceweather.com warning of flares, CMEs, aurorae, all that hot stuff. A well-aimed CME can do as much damage as a small EMP. Yow.

 

[JackLuis]

[URL="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/epas-scott-pruitt-discussing-climate-change-during-hurricane-irma-is-misplaced]EPA’s Scott Pruitt: Discussing climate change during Hurricane Irma ‘is misplaced’[/URL]

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During a phone interview with CNN, about Hurricane Irma, Trump's EPA chief Scott Pruitt said now is not the time to discuss climate change.

Pruitt said, "Here's the issue. To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm-versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm-is misplaced"

"What we need to focus on is access to clean water, addressing these areas of Superfund activities that may cause an attack on water, these issues of access to fuel. ... Those are things so important to citizens of Florida right now, and to discuss the cause and effect of these storms, there's the... place [and time] to do that. It's not now."

"Now is not the time," and if you try to discuss it, Pruitt said, "All I'm saying to you is, to use time and effort to address it at this point is very, very insensitive to this [sic] people in Florida."

If we're not going to discuss the causes of our problems at the point at which we have those problems, we never will. And that avoidance is how conservatives delay the solution.

Pruitt's deregulation fury had Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace repeatedly bashing him over his denials.

Pruitt told CNBC that CO2 isn't a "primary contributor" to global warming.

And he is who Trump trusts to protect our environment.

Donald urguyscott is somewhat foolish.

 

[Hypoxia]

[URL="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/epas-scott-pruitt-discussing-climate-change-during-hurricane-irma-is-misplaced]EPA’s Scott Pruitt: Discussing climate change during Hurricane Irma ‘is misplaced’[/URL]

It's the CO2. Pruitt has been sniffing way too much CO2. He should stick to nitrous. Less brain damage with nitrous. Be sure to exhale eventually.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

You would think at some point the cheapskate Rs would get sick of shelling out billions for Superstorms. One more Cat 5 and Whoops, there goes their hope of "cutting taxes."

As for Pruitt, he is both insane and pure evil and we have Steve Bannon to thank for that fuckhead, pardon my French.

I just hope Pruitt has his own armed bodyguards. He is Public Enemy #1.

It's the CO2. Pruitt has been sniffing way too much CO2. He should stick to nitrous. Less brain damage with nitrous. Be sure to exhale eventually.

 

[Hypoxia]

I really fucked up.

I admit it -- I screwed the pooch. Or the pooch screwed me. Whatever. Anyway, I made a strategic mistake (one of many) some years ago when I started my work of carving gods daily. Oh, it was great fun, whittling away at deities great and small, good and evil, lovely and ugly, wood and plastic and wadded paper and anything else available.

My fuckup? They're only generic gods. I should have tasked them to specific purposes. Sin gods. Sex gods. Food gods. Car gods. Dope gods. Weather gods.

Yeah, that's it. I've swayed in rain and anti-rain dances. I've burnt incense and worked rituals for better weather. But I never did carve rain gods, storm gods, Indian Summer gods, Global Warming gods. I've been amiss. I fucked up.

Maybe if we all carve and worship stability gods, global warming will go away?

 

[JackLuis]

https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn....=47595481b0231249c51d483ad10ad9c2&oe=5A4B57A2

Too big for the thread but funny.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Oh, come on!’: Watch MSNBC’s Alex Witt freak out over windsurfer in Hurricane Irma waves during live remote

Attempting to get an update on the oncoming Hurricane Irma from a Florida beach, MSNBC host Alex Witt had a mini-meltdown over a windsurfer still out in the waves behind a wind-blown correspondent urging locals to flee.

Speaking with reporter Mariana Atencio who was standing on a mostly deserted beach in Miami, host Witt began, “Winds have clearly picked up, as has the surf, which means that the storm surge would be approaching.”

As the windsurfer came into the shot frame, Witt was stunned.

“Mariana , before you get reporting, is that somebody kite-surfing behind you? Oh, come on!” she exclaimed.

“That’s exactly what I wanted to show you, Alex” Atencio replied. “This is not the scene that officials here, first responders want to be looking at. Because the storm has shifted slightly west, you’re starting to see people here in Miami Beach — which is under a mandatory evacuation order — doing water sports.”

Florida Man! OMG!