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Foler

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Tampa is going to disappear. This will be HISTORIC. I decided to stay in town. Wish me luck.
 
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Gavinmad

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Kiroy said:
heard some weather academic poo pooing the cat system, talking about how dropping to a cat three could technically be more damaging as it's slower pace could mean much more water damage which typically causes more problems than the high wind. I have no idea myself
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Sure a slow moving Cat 3/4 can do a lot more damage than a fast moving Cat 5, that's most of why Katrina and Harvey are the most damaging Atlantic hurricanes on record, but a hurricane's forward speed isn't tied to the intensity fluctuations. Milton isn't going to do more damage if it loses intensity.
 
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Mahes

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The MB is down to 905 now. I want to see the revised forecasts with this amount of power.
 
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Bald Brah

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Gavinmad said:
Sure a slow moving Cat 3/4 can do a lot more damage than a fast moving Cat 5, that's most of why Katrina and Harvey are the most damaging Atlantic hurricanes on record, but a hurricane's forward speed isn't tied to the intensity fluctuations. Milton isn't going to do more damage if it loses intensity.
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Andrew was pretty damn destructive, it just hit small spread out Florida towns instead of a major city built below sea level.

Obviously a cat 5 hurricane riding right up Tampa Bay would be end game levels of destruction, but they usually don't bullseye major cities.
 
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Gravel

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Foler said:
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That seems like a terrible job.

Surprised they're still flying P-3's too. I wonder if they'll just keep patching them together for eternity or eventually decide to move to something else. I wonder if the P-8 can handle that.
 
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Sanrith Descartes

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Gravel said:
That seems like a terrible job.

Surprised they're still flying P-3's too. I wonder if they'll just keep patching them together for eternity or eventually decide to move to something else. I wonder if the P-8 can handle that.
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Would you trust an old P-3 built and designed by old white guys or a modern plane built and designed with DEI?
 
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Mahes

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Actually shows the course 30 miles south of Tamp Bay on Zoom.Earth. Guess it took another small deviation.
 
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Kiroy said:
heard some weather academic poo pooing the cat system, talking about how dropping to a cat three could technically be more damaging as it's slower pace could mean much more water damage which typically causes more problems than the high wind. I have no idea myself
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It obviously doesn't tell the whole story about a storm's momentum. I think pressure, size, and wind speed are all relevant. A large storm with low pressure but only cat 3 could cause more damage than some of the burnout small cat 5s we've seen.
 
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