God is greater than all things. Another consideration regarding the lower than anticipated damage from Milton was that it hit south of Tampa Bay instead of the direct hit originally predicted. There were many prayers asking that Milton’s damage be limited. I do not disagree, whatsoever, with your thoughts on the solar activity. All of this fits its purpose in time.
Hi Cap,
This is sort of linked. On the “Coffee and Covid” blog by an American lawyer (https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/drastically-shortened-thursday-october), he makes an interesting comment at the end of his article (posted from Florida); “Chalk up another remarkable 2024 weather record this week. While our hurricanes and floods dominated the rest of the media, the UK Independent quietly ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Flooding hits Sahara Desert after extremely rare rainfall. Flooding. In the desert. Flooding. It may sound like a mushroom-inspired hallucination, but it’s true.”
It then gives more detail, and the elephant in the room, Hunga Tunga, gets a mench. Some great comment from him!
Hope it’s Ok to refer to others, but please edit as you see fit.
Milton underwhelmed because it hit in areas far less populated than the Tampa Florida area. Where it did hit it caused great damage, but the population in those areas was much, much smaller than the Tampa area, by millions.
So there are two takeaways from this storm. 1) Population growth in hurricane prone areas has been substantial in the last 30 years. This results in much more damage and deaths versus historical events. 2) The US has had two really bad hurricanes but the forecast for this year was for a much larger number of hurricanes. So what is not being reported is the big miss by the forecasters. However CAP is providing us with the logical reasons.
Hunga Tonga initially had Sun blocking particles.
By June 2023 they had dissipated. But between 10 to 15% water vapour was still there.
This could delay Grand Solar Minimum cooling.
REPORTER: Is the increase in tornados [caused by] global warming?
DESANTIS: I think you can back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure, and especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of (looks at the man behind him), what was it? About 950 millibars when it hit?
Which, I think if you go back to 1851, there’s probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960, and the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the State of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars.
It totally wiped out the Keys. We’ve never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the State of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we’ve ever had was in 1928, the Okeechobee hurricane. Killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren’t going to have anything close to that on this hurricane, but even ones like Ian, it wasn’t anything close to that. Yeah, I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it’s something. There’s nothing new under the sun. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it’s something that we’ll continue to deal with.
Watch here………………………… https://twitter.com/i/status/1844422985182060693
Solar wind speed 817 kilometers per second today when the solar flare hit. The speed around 700kps the last five hours producing a kp8.3. Protons have been elevated above warning level for two days now and electrons just went to alert level on the chart. The magnetometer chart showing the spike big time and also the Global D layer still lit up since the set of X flares the last few days. All that solar activity dropped cosmic rays on that chart and also raised TCI to new cycle high mark. N & S auroras going strong on both maps.
Hurricane M was the second strongest ever in the Gulf of Mexico behind Rita which was also from a solar flare. M was the strongest cyclone of 2024, fifth all time strongest in Atlantic system history. M spawned 100 tornados across the state. 12 dead, still over 3 million Florida houses with no electricity, three times the amount from Hurricane H 10 days ago. Eighteen inches of rain yesterday with a storm surge when it was still a major mess from Helene.
Milton was a wimp! No places in SW Florida had sustained hurricane force winds at all. It was a highly sheared system at landfall and weakened rapidly after landfall and was no longer tropical after it exited Florida. East coast has not had any direct majors in over 28 years now. The intensity of all tropical cyclones has decreased worldwide since 1995. This was one example. We’re not seeing anything like the Galveston hurricane, the Labor Day hurricane or Camille of 1969 ever since. Ironically, the Galveston hurricane killed 6,000 people and 40 percent of all automobiles were electric in 1900!
Unfortunately, Milton being THE STRONGEST HURRICANE EVER is firmly enbedded in the weak minds of the liberal headline readers. And that it is humanity’s fault.
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God is greater than all things. Another consideration regarding the lower than anticipated damage from Milton was that it hit south of Tampa Bay instead of the direct hit originally predicted. There were many prayers asking that Milton’s damage be limited. I do not disagree, whatsoever, with your thoughts on the solar activity. All of this fits its purpose in time.
Hi Cap,
This is sort of linked. On the “Coffee and Covid” blog by an American lawyer (https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/drastically-shortened-thursday-october), he makes an interesting comment at the end of his article (posted from Florida); “Chalk up another remarkable 2024 weather record this week. While our hurricanes and floods dominated the rest of the media, the UK Independent quietly ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Flooding hits Sahara Desert after extremely rare rainfall. Flooding. In the desert. Flooding. It may sound like a mushroom-inspired hallucination, but it’s true.”
It then gives more detail, and the elephant in the room, Hunga Tunga, gets a mench. Some great comment from him!
Hope it’s Ok to refer to others, but please edit as you see fit.
Milton underwhelmed because it hit in areas far less populated than the Tampa Florida area. Where it did hit it caused great damage, but the population in those areas was much, much smaller than the Tampa area, by millions.
So there are two takeaways from this storm. 1) Population growth in hurricane prone areas has been substantial in the last 30 years. This results in much more damage and deaths versus historical events. 2) The US has had two really bad hurricanes but the forecast for this year was for a much larger number of hurricanes. So what is not being reported is the big miss by the forecasters. However CAP is providing us with the logical reasons.
Hunga Tonga initially had Sun blocking particles.
By June 2023 they had dissipated. But between 10 to 15% water vapour was still there.
This could delay Grand Solar Minimum cooling.
REPORTER: Is that due to global warming?
DESANTIS: Tornadoes?
REPORTER: Is the increase in tornados [caused by] global warming?
DESANTIS: I think you can back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure, and especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of (looks at the man behind him), what was it? About 950 millibars when it hit?
Which, I think if you go back to 1851, there’s probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960, and the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the State of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars.
It totally wiped out the Keys. We’ve never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the State of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we’ve ever had was in 1928, the Okeechobee hurricane. Killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren’t going to have anything close to that on this hurricane, but even ones like Ian, it wasn’t anything close to that. Yeah, I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it’s something. There’s nothing new under the sun. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it’s something that we’ll continue to deal with.
Watch here…………………………
https://twitter.com/i/status/1844422985182060693
Solar wind speed 817 kilometers per second today when the solar flare hit. The speed around 700kps the last five hours producing a kp8.3. Protons have been elevated above warning level for two days now and electrons just went to alert level on the chart. The magnetometer chart showing the spike big time and also the Global D layer still lit up since the set of X flares the last few days. All that solar activity dropped cosmic rays on that chart and also raised TCI to new cycle high mark. N & S auroras going strong on both maps.
Hurricane M was the second strongest ever in the Gulf of Mexico behind Rita which was also from a solar flare. M was the strongest cyclone of 2024, fifth all time strongest in Atlantic system history. M spawned 100 tornados across the state. 12 dead, still over 3 million Florida houses with no electricity, three times the amount from Hurricane H 10 days ago. Eighteen inches of rain yesterday with a storm surge when it was still a major mess from Helene.
Milton was a wimp! No places in SW Florida had sustained hurricane force winds at all. It was a highly sheared system at landfall and weakened rapidly after landfall and was no longer tropical after it exited Florida. East coast has not had any direct majors in over 28 years now. The intensity of all tropical cyclones has decreased worldwide since 1995. This was one example. We’re not seeing anything like the Galveston hurricane, the Labor Day hurricane or Camille of 1969 ever since. Ironically, the Galveston hurricane killed 6,000 people and 40 percent of all automobiles were electric in 1900!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Milton
Unfortunately, Milton being THE STRONGEST HURRICANE EVER is firmly enbedded in the weak minds of the liberal headline readers. And that it is humanity’s fault.
Nice drop on the CR chart. Smooth line the dips then trend it out: https://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/
LIBERALISM has always been the enemy of AUTHORITARIAN mindsets.