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On 14-9-2018 19:26, Kenneth wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>> So... Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the east coast of the US (I live in
>> the state of Virginia, right on the coast-- and near the bull's eye of
>> landfall.)
>>
>
> [update...]
>
> Well... for my area, the hurricane has turned out to be "much ado about nothing"
> :-)
>
> Not that I'm complaining-- but after a week's worth of breathless doom-and-gloom
> predictions (for MY area) by ALL weathermen and newscasters, they're going to
> have some explaining to do. (Unless the storm re-strengthens over land, which is
> unheard of.) Predictions were that Florence might even grow into a Category 5
> before it hit the coast (the strongest monster winds); instead, it went from a 4
> down to a 2, then a 1! Here, we've had almost no rain, and the winds have
> *maybe* topped out at 30mph-- more like a typical Autumn day than a hurricane.
> All good news, of course (for us at least) but there are going to be lots of
> irritated people here who evacuated their homes and left the area. Yes, it's
> better to be "safe than sorry"-- but it looks like accurate weather prediction
> still has a ways to go (it might truly be impossible-- chaos theory, etc...)
>
> That butterfly in China must have suddenly reversed direction, or something...
>
>
Maybe this tells why:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06684-8?utm_source=briefing-wk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=briefing&utm_content=20180914
--
Thomas
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