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<blockquote data-quote="GTNavyNuke" data-source="post: 333885" data-attributes="member: 322"><p>Good luck to family. Having stayed through Isabel and no power for two weeks (we were lucky), the worst is afterwards. From the radar this morning, Houston is really getting flooded ...... the worst thing about tropical storms is when they are slow and dump extra rain. </p><p></p><p>Part of climate change is the increase in sea water temperature as well as atmospheric temperature. That makes these storms more powerful. This site has a good geeral discussion <span style="font-size: 9px"><a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php" target="_blank">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php</a> </span><span style="font-size: 15px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"</span><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Specifically, researchers found that storms attain Category 3 wind speeds nearly nine hours faster than they did in the 1980s. Another satellite-based study found that global wind speeds had increased by an average of 5 percent over the past two decades.</span></em></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>There is also evidence that extra water vapor in the atmosphere is making storms wetter. During the past 25 years, satellites have measured a 4 percent rise in water vapor in the air column. In ground-based records, about 76 percent of weather stations in the United States have seen increases in extreme precipitation since 1948. One analysis found that extreme downpours are happening 30 percent more often. Another study found that the largest storms now produce 10 percent more precipitation."</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It is as it is. We have made our bed and are going to be coping with stronger storms. (Of course that is just my opinion based on watching sea level and water temperature rise. One good thing where I live is that climate change has apparently shifted the jet stream which should keep more hurricanes from impacting the East Coast; but the Gulf will get more.)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTNavyNuke, post: 333885, member: 322"] Good luck to family. Having stayed through Isabel and no power for two weeks (we were lucky), the worst is afterwards. From the radar this morning, Houston is really getting flooded ...... the worst thing about tropical storms is when they are slow and dump extra rain. Part of climate change is the increase in sea water temperature as well as atmospheric temperature. That makes these storms more powerful. This site has a good geeral discussion [SIZE=1][URL]https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php[/URL] [/SIZE][SIZE=4] "[/SIZE][I][SIZE=4]Specifically, researchers found that storms attain Category 3 wind speeds nearly nine hours faster than they did in the 1980s. Another satellite-based study found that global wind speeds had increased by an average of 5 percent over the past two decades.[/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=4][I] There is also evidence that extra water vapor in the atmosphere is making storms wetter. During the past 25 years, satellites have measured a 4 percent rise in water vapor in the air column. In ground-based records, about 76 percent of weather stations in the United States have seen increases in extreme precipitation since 1948. One analysis found that extreme downpours are happening 30 percent more often. Another study found that the largest storms now produce 10 percent more precipitation." [/I] It is as it is. We have made our bed and are going to be coping with stronger storms. (Of course that is just my opinion based on watching sea level and water temperature rise. One good thing where I live is that climate change has apparently shifted the jet stream which should keep more hurricanes from impacting the East Coast; but the Gulf will get more.)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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