I’m going to put my hand up and ask a stupid question again. Is cat 5 the limit for a physical reason, or just because we’ve only been measuring wind speeds for the blink of an eye? I assume there’s some kind of upper limit on how strong a hurricane can be from just how much energy is in the system and the geography?
The Category System is actually a scale of how much potential damage the Hurricane will cause to structures so you don’t really need to expand the system past Cat 5 since no matter how well a building is constructed if it’s facing winds stronger than 156 miles per hour for any period of time longer than a few seconds its going to have at the very least serious structural damage if it’s not outright completely destroyed. It’s like the EF scale for tornados expect we can at least know how bad it is going to be in advance and evacuate before it hits.
Got it. Can’t get more fucked than ‘totally.’
There is theories that there was possibly far worse natural disasters way long ago. There are some mass extinction events that were natural disasters, but when referring to scales, its mostly a reference to recorded history. You could in theory have go way beyond anything recorded, but the time it would take to see something so powerful that it can cause a mass extinction event would take tens of thousands of years (probably).
The highest recorded 1 minute sustained winds in a tropical cyclone was 215 MPH in Hurricane Patricia off the SW coast of Mexico. Strongest recorded gust was 254 MPH in Cyclone Olivia, which hit Western Australia.
Homeowners' insurance in Florida is getting so expensive because of these hurricanes there will likely be a mass exodus from the state in the years to come. They simply can't afford the premiums, or the insurers flat-out discharge the policies and stop operating in the market. What do you do then?
Earthquakes are measured on the Richter scale, which is based on seismic wave strength. This is different to the hurricane or tornado categories, which are both based on damage levels.
Buy a vacation home on Sanibel and build cheap.
The Fyre Festival strategy.
This is the severe weather thread. It doesn't specify the location of said severe weather. Also, solar flares do influence earth's weather, even if that influence is poorly understood.
Mercury being hit with a solar flare is like Oklahoma getting hit with a tornado outbreak in May or Florida getting a hurricane in September.
Right, the video isn't all about Mercury though; Talks about the solar maximum we're in, past lows and highs, major sun spots like the one that just hit Mercury on the far side of the sun now, but will be turning back at us.
Given that another Carrinton Event level storm would cause mass havoc I agree.
That's a technicality, there's people much smarter than any of us who already monitor for that sort of thing and warn the relevant infrastructure managers if there will be a solar event significant enough to cause damage to said systems so that they can take their precautions. Unless a solar storm is particularly relevant and intense enough to have significant impact on our electrical systems, this is the equivalent of watching those YouTube channels where amateur mets sperg out about long term model data and make "totally 100% accurate" predictions on significant weather events that ultimately may or may not happen, because weather prediction really doesn't start getting accurate until about 3-5 days out from a relevant event (usually due to short-term, convection-allowing model differences), and even then, it can still be too messy to call even on the day of and sometimes requires careful monitoring when it's currently happening.
If we spent maybe 100 billion dollars (or one year of Ukraine "aid" packages) we'd literally never have to worry about solar flares again. All you need is an array of satellites with electromagnets and copper wire and solar flares just get brushed off harmlessly. The tech was there for this 50 years ago.
