gallopinggertie

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-lahore-record-pollution-3bada25447094a3b1bd62d3be38b5984 Horrible air pollution is striking the city of Lahore. They opened their first Metro line in 2020, but they will have to build many more to mitigate pollution. The city already has 13 million people in the metro area and is rapidly growing.

Sounds like Rafael bit Havana pretty bad. Cuba did not need a major hurricane strike with the way that country is in full scale collapse.

Has there ever been a hurricane that strengthened to Cat 2 in the Gulf of Mexico and then weakened to a tropical depression or dissipated upon reaching the gulf coast? That seems to be what NHC is forecasting.

The wiki page on this typhoon claims that “Kong-rey was the first typhoon in Taiwan's history to make landfall after mid-October and the largest storm to strike since Typhoon Herb in 1996.” At one point, cloud cover extended all the way from the northern tip of Borneo to the very south of South Korea!

Hopefully Oscar’s tiny size prevents it from causing too many problems in Cuba. God knows they have enough going on at the moment as it is.

Does seem like it would be passing over or just to the south of Grand Turk now. Oscar’s track reminds me of Joaquin in 2015.

That’s one I’ve thought about, especially if it stalled over Miami like it did over the Bahamas. Another bad scenario would be if Andrew had made landfall 10 or 20 miles north of where it did.

I’ve seen a list on wiki of normalized costs for hurricanes, I.e. how much damage a hurricane would cause if it hit today. I’m not sure how complete it is though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Costliest_U.S._Atlantic_hurricanes_by_wealth_normalization

Oh sorry, I took it the opposite of how you meant it - my bad.

I post on a certain other regional weather forum, and some of the people there don’t even believe climate change is real. One of them said these conspiracy theories are the fault of climate scientists. Absolutely unhinged

Idiocracy.

There is definitely a lot of loss. I think we will see a final damage tally of tens of billions of dollars from this one (the first preliminary estimate I saw was 30-50 billion, though it seems too early to pin down an exact number). Whereas the worst-case scenario I’m sure would have been well north of $100 billion. It’s wild how these last-minute wobbles and timing issues have such outsize effects on people’s lives and livelihoods.

I’d suggest having more nuance, Milton wasn’t the worst case scenario but plenty of communities in florida aren’t “just fine” right now either.

The roof is made of fiberglass coated with Teflon, so I’m not sure if it’s accurate to call it fabric. Also, I’d be concerned about water damage to components of the structure as rain falls on it.

Milton is about to cross over Florida’s tallest mountain range, the mighty Lake Wales Ridge.