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re: A good read on the 33 Category 5 hurricanes on record in the Atlantic since 1924
Posted on 8/31/16 at 8:12 pm to ForeverLSU02
Posted on 8/31/16 at 8:12 pm to ForeverLSU02
My old man still talks about Andrew daily. Was a life changer.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 10:53 pm to Teton Tiger
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How about Hilda? Hit closer to the berry.
Hilda maxed out at cat 4, made landfall as cat 3
Posted on 8/31/16 at 10:58 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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They must have extrapolated from land based readings.
Fair enough, but how did they know how to even do that?
Posted on 8/31/16 at 11:03 pm to East Coast Band
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IIRC, Andrew was only a 3 or 4 just before coming ashore, and it intensified as it approached and was afterwards declared a Cat 5.
Yep, I've read that couldn't get an accurate wind for Andrew because of destroyed weather gauges so the category/maximum sustained wind had to be estimated by the damage.
Eta: One of my old professors at LSU, Dr. Liu literally wrote the book on the science of "paleotempestology". Finding and discovering where ancient hurricanes landed and how strong they were. Can be measured from ocean sediments in inland freshwater lakes from storm surge. They can accurately date the sediment and when the hurricane happened based on pollen trapped in the sediment.
Also for our Atlantic record pre-1860s we have the Spanish to thank.
The Chinese have accurate records describing hurricanes dating back to I think the year ~300.
This post was edited on 8/31/16 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 8/31/16 at 11:17 pm to slackster
I don't know the answer, but men were navigating the globe in the 1400's. It's amazing what man has done to get to where we are now, and how quickly the last few centuries have advanced. I'm sure there were ancient Greeks and Romans using manometers and a log book to figure out when bad shite was coming long long ago.
Humans are some ultra smart bastards.
Humans are some ultra smart bastards.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 11:48 pm to Groovie
Andrew was recently retconned as a CAT 4 hurricane when it hit LA. Originally it was thought to be a CAT 3 but about 10+ years later they revisited the readings and realized it was stronger.
Posted on 9/1/16 at 2:14 am to LeClerc
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That's a mobile home park.
Andrew made Homestead Air Force Base disappear.
Miami dodged a huge bullet.
Posted on 9/1/16 at 3:28 am to theunknownknight
I remember being piss drunk standing on Kirby Smith's back porch watching Andrew dismantle the IHOP. It was blowing pea gravel off of Kirby's roof like .22 bullets busting out car windows.
Posted on 9/1/16 at 4:42 am to The Quiet One
I had an old friend of mine get ticketed for taking a whiz behind a McDonalds in Baton Rouge in the middle of Hurricane Andrew. He went to court on a public indecency charge, and the judge looked at the date of the arrest, laughed his arse off, and said "get the heck out of here."
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