Manmade Global Warming - New Extremes, page-9680

thanks again for your 'response'.

You seem to be showcasing the very latest in 'research and analysis' by the suckers signed onto denying anthropogenic global warming and the climate change it brings.

in effect, doing the dirty work for the polluting fossil fuel producer cabal. Saves them the effort. Good lad.

Back in the real world, below are key parts of a long meteorological analysis of the current state of Hurricane Milton, believed to be tracking eastward to a landfall near Tampa, on Florida's west coast.

these excerpts come an article written by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson and published late Monday on....

YALECLIMATECONNECTIONS.ORG:

"Category 5 Milton poses an exceptionally serious threat to Florida’s west coast.

"One of the fastest-intensifying Atlantic hurricanes on record, Milton is on track to slam into Florida’s west coast with potentially catastrophic storm surge.

"Hurricane Milton has gone from tropical-storm to Category-5 strength in just over 24 hours – a spectacular and ominous feat of rapid intensification over the record-warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

"Milton is the Earth’s third Cat 5 of 2024, along with Hurricane Beryl in the Atlantic and Super Typhoon Yagi in the Western Pacific. As of 2 p.m. EDT, Milton’s top sustained winds were an astonishing 175 mph (282 km/h), and its central pressure was 911 millibars.

"Between 2 p.m. EDT Sunday and 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Milton’s official top sustained winds increased from 80 to 175 mph, an increase of 95 mph (153 km/h) in 24 hours – not far from Hurricane Wilma’s Atlantic-record 24-hour intensification rate of 110 mph in 2005.

"Milton intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just under 25 hours, just shy of Wilma’s record 24-hour rate. In the 51 hours from 11 a.m. Saturdayto 2 p.m. Monday, Milton’s top sustained winds went from 35 to 175 mph – topping Hurricane Felix’s Atlantic-record 54-hour rate of 140 mph (225 km/h) in 2007 by accomplishing the same amount of intensification in an even shorter time frame.

"Conditions will be very favorable for intensification of Milton through Tuesday morning. Ocean temperatures in the western Gulf of Mexico are record-warm – 30-31 degrees Celsius (86-88°F), about 1-2 degrees Celsius above average.

"Moreover, a substantial amount of warm water extends to great depth (i.e., the ocean has a high ocean heat content). Wind shear is predicted to be light, 5-10 knots, and the atmosphere will be moderately moist, with a mid-level relative humidity of 60%."