#category5 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #category5, aggregated by home.social.
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Super Typhoon Bavi has shocked with its explosive development near Guam. Discover the details of this Category 5 storm as it heads for Taiwan.#category5 #explosivestrengthening #guam #guamnews #Marianas #rapidintensification #supertyphoon #taiwan #typhoon #typhoonalley #typhoonbavi #weatherupdate #westernpacific
Category 5 Typhoon Bavi Battered Rota and Guam, Now Turning Toward Taiwan -
Why Is Bill Gates Attacking Climate Science?
Silicon Valley has a financial reason for wanting to slow down the global movement to reduce the use of fossil fuels.https://murica.website/2025/11/why-is-bill-gates-attacking-climate-science/
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#Jamaica #Hurricane #HurricaneMelissa #category5 #Weather #winds #storm
My thoughts are with everyone in Jamaica tonight. Let’s hope it won’t be as bad as they predict...
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Irish weather expert gives update as Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 5 https://www.yahurl.live/3ibm8c9slasc
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Jamaica Prepares for One of the Most “Devastating Hurricanes on Record”
The people of Jamaica are making emergency preparations on Monday as Hurricane Melissa intensified overnight, with meteorologists in awe of the scale and shape of the “monster” storm now bearing down on the island nation, already saturated from previous rains and bracing for what could be a major climate-related catastrophe. In a 5:00 am EDT advisory on Monday, the U.S.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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#NOAA dropped scientist’s ashes into the eye of #Category5 #HurricaneMilton
Hurricane hunter #PeterDodge's last flight into the storms he spent his life studying. The drop honored Dodge's 44-year career and his contributions to radar meteorology and tropical cyclone research. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/scientists-ashes-dropped-into-hurricane-miltons-eye-as-final-tribute/ -
At 20:00 p.m. ET, #Hurricane winds peaked at 266 km/h,moving #Milton to #Category5 again
Early Thursday it'll make landfall between #Tampa and #FortMyers, possibly #Sarasota, on west-central coast of #Florida 4 km width eye is extremely small -pinhole- so it's keeping its energy -
#HurricaneMilton becomes second-fastest storm to reach #Category5 status
#TampaBay has not been directly hit by a major hurricane since 1921.
Based upon #Atlantic basin records, Milton has tied Hurricane Maria (2017) for the second-fastest intensification from a Category 1 to #Cat5 #hurricane, taking just 18 hours. Only Hurricane Wilma (2005) did so more rapidly, in just 12 hours.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/hurricane-milton-becomes-second-fastest-storm-to-reach-category-5-status/ -
Record Hot Water Is Fueling #HurricaneMilton
Milton grew into a #Category5 #hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm #GulfofMexico.
Much of that intensification was fueled by record warm #ocean temp in Gulf of Mexico. Global temps are rising because #fossilfuels add #greenhousegas to atmosphere, helping trap heat near planet’s surface.
Hurricane-force winds typically stir up cooler ocean water from below surface that can weaken a hurricane.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/climate/hurricane-milton-ocean-temperature.html
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#HurricaneMilton Is a #Category5 #Storm —it has since dropped back to a Category 4 storm — and #Republicans Don’t Seem to Give a #RatsAss
Not having a #climate #policy is one way of having a #climatepolicy.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62532351/hurricane-milton-republican-response/
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#Category5
#HurricaneMilton just about fills the gulf.
Image from GOES East satellite.
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Latest update in recon data of #Hurricane #Milton puts it comfortably above the criteria for Category 5 at 175 mph wind speeds. Pressure has also notably dropped down to 911 mb.
Hurricane Milton is still showing rapid intensification. Stay alert to the latest forecasts to stay safe!
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Maybe I am missing something, but it seems unfathomably foolish that scientists would make a measurement scale that just stops incrementing as the thing being measured exceeds its original expectation.
Would we have hot temperatures stop at a couple hundred degrees (C or F)? Long distance measures that level off at 50 miles (or km)? It seems pure crazy.
Not only does it mess up proportionality, making many or most formula equations weird and unworkable, but here's the real thing bugging me:
We want people to know the climate problem is getting worse, so they'll do something. How can we do that if folks can keep saying "It's never worse than Cat 5" even as Cat 5 gets worse?
We already have the problem that instead of saying words like "really bad", we say "2 degrees". As if that would raise an eyebrow, much less an alarm. Do we really need more underwhelming terminology?
So why is this even a question? Did the people responsible take a class in Bad Labeling when they should have been in a class on Extrapolation? Why is extrapolation not automatic? I'm at a loss.
Just call it Cat 6 like the measure was always there and just never had a storm to match.
And start planning to see Cat 7, probably sooner than anyone expects.
#climate #terminology #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #weather #measurement #hurricane #storms #Category5 #Category6
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#Drone footage shows shocking #devastation on #Caribbean island Petit #Martinique from #HurricaneBeryl as historic #storm intensifies into terrifying #Category5, #Jamaica now under #hurricane warning: #weather #Cat5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEK-4FWXzs
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#HurricaneBeryl #HuracanBeryl #Category5
Devastation in St Vincent and the Grenadines caused by Hurricane Beryl on July 1, 2024.📸 Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves.
https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/residents-urged-stay-indoors-beryl-continues-menace-svg?s=09
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We should be terrified about what #HurricaneOtis did to #Acapulco. It's not just that #ClimateChange is making hurricanes stronger, it's the lightning speed with which they now intensify. Otis went from being a tropical storm to a #Category5 hurricane in *12 hours*. There's no way a city of 1 million people can prepare in that little time.
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#Hurricane #Otis: storm strengthens to #Category5 in a matter of hours as it nears #Mexico
“A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico this evening with rapidly intensifying Otis approaching the coastline,” a National Hurricane Center forecaster said late on Tuesday.“This is an extremely serious situation for the #Acapulco metropolitan area with the core of the destructive hurricane likely to come near or over that large city early on Wednesday,” the weather service said. “There are no hurricanes on record even close to this intensity for this part of Mexico.”
#Weather #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klima #Klimakrise
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GOES West satellite view of #HurricaneOtis. Note that the eye is now north of the forecast track. Hope everyone in #Acapulo is paying attention and stays safe.
The satellite image refreshes after 15 minutes but you will need to either toggle that basemap off/on or re-open the map to see the new image.
#Otis #Mexico #Hurricane #Huracan #Category5Open #GISsurfer map: https://bit.ly/3SiNvS9
