Re: Patricia at 4am CDT on Friday: 200mph; 880mb; Strongest NHC has ever handled
Posted by LawKat on 10/23/2015, 11:26 am
This is the kind of storm that would nearly end some major coastal cities along the Gulf and Florida.  I'm not sure that New Orleans, Fort Myers, Biloxi, Mobile, Galveston, or many other smaller cities could recover from such a storm, at least not for decades.  Long Beach and Bay St. Louis still haven't recovered from Katrina.  It would make some places uninhabitable.

The problem is that this is a "when" question, not an "if" answer.  It will happen.  

By the way, a wave during one of the peaks of Hurricane Ivan was measured by a buoy at 90ft tall.  Ivan also had hail pelting the Hurricane Hunter aircraft and lightning at high altitudes, shooting from cloud to cloud, which was observed by the HH.  I cannot imagine what Patricia has in her worst part.

Haiyan left the Philippines flattened and still decimated two years later and in some places, uninhabitable.

I expect the same here.

Though Patricia is close, I now fully believe that we will all be witness to a cyclone that breaks 870mb in the next few years, and becomes the new Supertyphoon Tip.

I once believed that 200mph was unattainable, but man, was I wrong.  I'm starting to think that 210 and more is now possible, as we heat up.

The next 2005 that comes around for the Atlantic may be the one that finally finishes off a city, which is something we all probably thought was reserved for the previous centuries and movies.  
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Patricia at 4am CDT on Friday: 200mph; 880mb; Strongest NHC has ever handled - Chris in Tampa, 10/23/2015, 4:57 am
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