re: Storm Aftermath - Hurricane Matthew will be Retired

Good point on the expanded windfield.

WTF is Nicole doing? Toyng with Bermuda?

These storms are a cluster frick out in the Atlantic. One wants to play hopscotch near Bermuda messing with them and the other is currently forecast to loop back around and skull frick Florida again. I sure hope these forecasts are wrong considering they're so far out.

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Yep that wind will get to a howling roar then you can hear the walls creak every so often when you get a decent gust.

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There as some high TS that hit NOLA a couple of months before Katrina. Can't even remember the name but a few weeks after it was retroactively upgraded to a Cat 1. Our house had no damage, but I got little sleep that night. The wind was howling and the walls were shaking and creaking when the gusts picked up. Lost power at some point. About 2 am it calmed down a bit and I walked outside and the sky was orange. Eventually went to work around noon that day.

love these threads. Gain a ton of knowledge.

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Yep that wind will get to a howling roar then you can hear the walls creak every so often when you get a decent gust

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Yes i have heard that roar before. Probably one of the scariest things ive ever heard. Tommorrow the roar will be back . Yeah prepared to spend at least the next week or more with no power.

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On another board, a poster stated an increase from 145 to 155 equates to 14% more power.

Kinetic Energy= 1/2 * mass * velocity^2

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That's true, but the power of a wind field increases with the CUBE of the velocity, not the square. The kinetic energy of a given chunk of wind quadruples if you double the velocity, but power is the rate of energy delivered. While each chunk of wind has four times the energy if you double the velocity, they're moving twice as fast so TWO chunks of wind slam into you in the same amount of time that one chunk would hit you at the original velocity. So, double the velocity and the POWER delivered by the wind is EIGHT times what it was at the original velocity, and that's a cube law.

155^3/145^3 = 1.22, so the increase in power delivered is actually 22%.

Slackster, thanks brother. I appreciate it.

Unless something drastically changes at 5, and I can still drive out of here, I'm staying.

The lulls in rains are awesome, the lake has been slicking out like glass between them. Scared to leave my house because coming back will not be pretty on Saturday..

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That's true, but the power of a wind field increases with the CUBE of the velocity, not the square. The kinetic energy of a given chunk of wind quadruples if you double the velocity, but power is the rate of energy delivered. While each chunk of wind has four times the energy if you double the velocity, they're moving twice as fast so TWO chunks of wind slam into you in the same amount of time that one chunk would hit you at the original velocity. So, double the velocity and the POWER delivered by the wind is EIGHT times what it was at the original velocity.

155^3/145^3 = 1.22, so the increase in power delivered is actually 22%.

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I feel so stupid having attempted to understand this.