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Hurricane Flo Banter Thread-no fun allowed, no saying the storm isn’t that bad plz


the ghost of leroy

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We can develop an atomic weapon in the early 1940's. We can land someone on the moon in 69. We can start to develop a computer in the 80's. We can develop a smart phone which is a very complex device in the 2000's, we can start to develop self automated love dolls in the 2010's, but we cant pin point a hurricane forecast 5 days out. Smh 

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5 minutes ago, hickory said:

We can develop an atomic weapon in the early 1940's. We can land someone on the moon in 69. We can start to develop a computer in the 80's. We can develop a smart phone which is a very complex device in the 2000's, we can start to develop self automated love dolls in the 2010's, but we cant pin point a hurricane forecast 5 days out. Smh 

The BIG difference is chaos (in mathematical context).

 

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9 minutes ago, hickory said:

We can develop an atomic weapon in the early 1940's. We can land someone on the moon in 69. We can start to develop a computer in the 80's. We can develop a smart phone which is a very complex device in the 2000's, we can start to develop self automated love dolls in the 2010's, but we cant pin point a hurricane forecast 5 days out. Smh 

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5 minutes ago, hickory said:

We can develop an atomic weapon in the early 1940's. We can land someone on the moon in 69. We can start to develop a computer in the 80's. We can develop a smart phone which is a very complex device in the 2000's, we can start to develop self automated love dolls in the 2010's, but we cant pin point a hurricane forecast 5 days out. Smh 

 

But we know it's there and have a bunch of algorithms computing where it may wind up.  Pretty good, I have to say.

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26 minutes ago, hickory said:

We can develop an atomic weapon in the early 1940's. We can land someone on the moon in 69. We can start to develop a computer in the 80's. We can develop a smart phone which is a very complex device in the 2000's, we can start to develop self automated love dolls in the 2010's, but we cant pin point a hurricane forecast 5 days out. Smh 

Current tropical cyclone track forecast accuracy is, in my opinion, one of the greatest achievements of humanity. 

I am continuously astonished at how good it is now and how much it's constantly improved. 

 

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19 minutes ago, Derecho! said:

Current tropical cyclone track forecast accuracy is, in my opinion, one of the greatest achievements of humanity. 

I am continuously astonished at how good it is now and how much it's constantly improved. 

 

It wasn’t that great when Florence went from low end cane to cat 4 over 27c water. But I agree it’s light years better then it was 30 years ago.  

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1 hour ago, hickory said:

Look I just wish our goverment would spend more on science than defense. Imagine what we could do with half of the defense budget. 

To be sure I would be heartened if we were to increase NOAA’s budget by say, the flyaway cost of 10 F-35s per year, and to be sure it is worthwhile to continue to strive for 120 or 168 or 192 hours of reliable warning rather than 96, 72, or 48-36. But Derecho! is right that sciencewise the forecasting is amazing; what probably most needs attention is our social and civic infrastructure in terms of preparedness & anticipating climatologically plausible emergencies generally and for acting on the warnings we do get for specific imminent hazards.

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I am so proud of my local forecast office because every dang little infographic and powerpoint slide they put out on everything from “weird clouds” to “life hazardous blizzard chaos” shows that somewhere, some trained weather professional is striving not just to have a forecast that verifies but also to make it meaningfully actionable for idiots like me.

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Well it looks like the NHC is doing a white lie keeping Florence officially at 140 mph. With a storm so threatening I'd fear lowering the wind speed would decrease public concern so I can see why they are bending the observations a little bit and more than likely with the pressure falling I'd say the storm will restrengthen to some extent. If the storm were to maintain the status quo and were still kept at 140 I'd have a problem with it however.

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1 hour ago, Derecho! said:

Current tropical cyclone track forecast accuracy is, in my opinion, one of the greatest achievements of humanity. 

I am continuously astonished at how good it is now and how much it's constantly improved. 

 

The Euro nailed the general position of Florence along the NC coast on day 9, maybe day 10 when it was just a wave coming off the west African coast. That is impressive.

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