![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I wasn't paying attention, but...
Hurricane Wilma became a Cat-5 briefly yesterday, setting a new record for barometric pressure. For a while, it was the strongest hurricane ever recorded.
*boggle*
It has since weakened. It is expected to hit the Yucatan, and then head for southwest Florida. Still... a Cat-5? in late October? Shouldn't we be having mostly Cat-1s or 2s by now?
My God. We'll be having storms until Thanksgiving at this rate. There must be a lot of heat still left in the Caribbean waters for storms to be this strong this late in the year.
This is the first time that the name list has been exhausted, since they began naming storms in 1953 (they don't assign names for x, y, or z). After this, we move on to Greek letters. Which brings up an interesting point: if we are entering a period of intense hurricane activity, and we have subsequent years this bad, how do they differentiate between very late storms that are very bad? It's not like you could retire a letter, could you?
Hurricane Wilma became a Cat-5 briefly yesterday, setting a new record for barometric pressure. For a while, it was the strongest hurricane ever recorded.
*boggle*
It has since weakened. It is expected to hit the Yucatan, and then head for southwest Florida. Still... a Cat-5? in late October? Shouldn't we be having mostly Cat-1s or 2s by now?
My God. We'll be having storms until Thanksgiving at this rate. There must be a lot of heat still left in the Caribbean waters for storms to be this strong this late in the year.
This is the first time that the name list has been exhausted, since they began naming storms in 1953 (they don't assign names for x, y, or z). After this, we move on to Greek letters. Which brings up an interesting point: if we are entering a period of intense hurricane activity, and we have subsequent years this bad, how do they differentiate between very late storms that are very bad? It's not like you could retire a letter, could you?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
From:
no subject